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Singapore's Nativist Problem

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the Xenophobia:-the-Universal-Language dept.

fx_68 writes:

"A sharp rise in the foreign population has ratcheted up racial tensions. Does Singapore have a problem with xenophobia? It seems that barely a month goes by these days without news reports highlighting friction between Singaporeans and foreign workers in the tiny multi-ethnic city-state."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday February 27 2014, @12:37PM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Thursday February 27 2014, @12:37PM (#7914) Homepage
    And the root of the problem?
    "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

    I think I should just make that line my .sig. I've posted it 3 times in the last week.
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