Comments by "Harry McNicholas" (@harrymcnicholas9468) on "Epimetheus" channel.

  1. Singapore thrives because of all the people. Chinese, Indian, Malay and others. If it were just Chinese, then it would be just like corrupt China.
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  2. No it is a cultural, ethnic, linguistic and religious mix and it does very well. Singapore is very much like Switzerland.
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  3. Doesn't Naga mean large snake or kind cobra in Sanskrit?
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  4. Singapore is a multi ethnic, multi cultural, multi linguistic and multi religious country. There are people from all over Asia plus Europeans and Americans. A bit more authoritarian than most of Europe and the US but it works.
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  5. By boat?
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  6. Actually in India also. The Asian lion. Not many left.
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  7. Actually they brought stability and kept all the different races and religions from killing one another.
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  8. Singapore demonstrates that a multicultural, linguistic and racial state can thrive.
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  9. Right and made it into one of the best managed countries in the world.
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  10. I think that is more due to the character of the people of Indonesia that the religion.
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  11. Well first you had the first Sari Sari store.
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  12. Well he saw this big cat and just assumed it was a lion.
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  13. So there were lion headed fish there? Now that makes sense. Ha ha ha.
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  14. Now that should be an interesting statue. Of course there is a fish called the lion fish but it does not have the head of a lion. They may actually occur off the coasts of Singapore. Very deadly fish.
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  15. I am not sure how far east the Asian lion lived. I am going to check.
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  16. He was also honest,which is not common among dictators.
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  17. India is as far east as the Asiatic lion lived. They live now only in the Gir forest in India. They once lived as far west as Greece and maybe Italy and Spain.
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  18. There was likely another source for the name.
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  19. Had a Prof from Harvard say it meant dragon. I knew he was an idiot but could not say much.
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  20. Actually in S.E Asia they converted to Buddhism. Malays and Indonesians converted to Islam but the Pi ended up Christian.
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  21. Actually much of S.E. Asia converted to Buddhism.
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