Comments by "K `" (@user-jt3dw6vv4x) on "This Tiny Island Is the Most Densely Defended Country in the World | WSJ" video.

  1.  @nuggetmanman5459  No, it's non-aligned. It maintains good relations with everybody.
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  2.  @waltersimmons9512  because Singapore was once part of Malaysia but it was expelled from the country due to race riots. There was fear that Singapore would fail because it has no natural resources and was very poor at the time, with an ethnically diverse population that was marred by ethnic violence and a high fertility rate. Singapore transformed from a developing to a developed nation in one generation and is now one of the most advanced nations on earth. Compare that to Malaysia, still a developing country rife with corruption, still practicing ethnocentric race-based politics and suffering from a tremendous brain drain that is so severe that the World Bank said that Malaysia won't become a high income nation until it plugs its brain drain. The prediction that Malaysia will become high income keeps being pushed back. In the late 2010s, they said that by 2021 Malaysia would be a high income nation but now it's 2024 and Malaysia is still a developing middle income nation. The Malaysian government has also expressed regret at the fact that they are losing their brightest to countries like Australia.
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  3.  @leakahoshi5049  Being a city is a disadvantage to Singapore because it has no natural resources and being located on a shipping lane means nothing if you don't have the right leaders with the right visions. There are other Asian countries along that same shipping route that could have been like Singapore but they didn't and that's because of their inability to manage their ethnic diversity. Lee Kuan Yew, with the help of his close friend and political ally, created a framework that would fix Singapore's ethnic problem by uniting the country's ethnically diverse inhabitants. So by uniting the people, he was able to make the country's population its natural resource. This is why Singapore stresses the importance of ethnic harmony and that's why the country is by far the most successful multi-ethnic nation in Asia and among the best in the world.
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  4.  @Banom7a  Yeah but Chinese are East Asians and Singapore is in Asia. Mauritius is in Africa but most of its people are not native to Africa. Do Indo-Mauritians consider themselves Africans or South Asians or neither? I guess it doesn't matter. They're Mauritians first and foremost.
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  5. Yes that was in the past but not anymore and it wasn't due to religion, it was due to ethnicity. Malaysia and Indonesia are predominantly Malay/Indonesian while Singapore is predominantly Chinese. Singapore has good relations with Malaysia and Indonesia.
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  6. 15% of Singaporeans are Muslims, of which most belong to the indigenous people of Singapore: the Malays...
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  7. So this remark makes no sense
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  8.  @justit1074  It's termed the Switzerland of the East because it's politically neutral.
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  9. They're both very selfish. They don't care about the other countries in the region, only about themselves.
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  10. Yes English is the main language of Singapore as it's the unifying language of the country's Chinese, Malay and Tamil populations.
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  11. How so?
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  12. Yes and that's to be politically neutral but Australia is more interested in being in bed with the USA
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  13. Singaporeans are ethnic Chinese, Malays, ethnic Indians as well as some other groups like Eurasians, Peranakans etc. It's a multiethnic country.
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  14.  @randomix4023  The way Singapore is nowhere even close to China...
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  15.  @Banom7a  True but most of the people in Mauritius are ethnic Indians.
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  16.  @AbuHajarAlBugatti  Still waiting for the day that Singapore has its own Korean Wave, Taiwanese Wave or Hong Kong martial arts film/Cantopop trend. It's the only Asian Tiger economy without any significant pop culture influence. They should've done better to capitalise on "Crazy Rich Asians" back in the 2010s or they should partner with South Korea and create Singaporean girl groups that sing in English in the Kpop style, like that Japanese girl group that debuted (can't remember their name). Thailand's doing so much better in the pop culture department than Singapore, they even have girls from South Korea, China, India and all across Southeast Asia, including Singapore, competing in reality shows trying to debut in an Asian girl group that's based in Thailand and what does Singapore have? Nothing.
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  17.  @AbuHajarAlBugatti  English is the main language of Singapore, it's also the unifying language of Singaporean people who are mostly of Chinese, Malay and Indian descent. They aren't going to lose anything if they followed the Kpop formula and also, Singapore is a country that is known as "east meets west" city because it is a mix of Asian and Western influences. Kpop is also not completely Western, they sing in Korean and their aesthetic is clearly based off of Korean ideals. Also, cultures develop. You can't expect a culture to remain the same for 3000 years.
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  18.  @AbuHajarAlBugatti  Also, I brought that up because there is, once again, growing interest in Asian singers that perform in English. So Singapore has everything if they want to boost their cultural influence.
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  19. Oh Malaysia, you could have had it all. You've made great strides since the 1990s but you're still not a high income developed nation. Plug that brain drain and stop yourself from falling into the middle income trap.
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  20.  @adamdaniel8909  Singapore was expelled from Malaysia in 1965 and at the time there was a need to show its neighbours that it wasn't a country worth invading.
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  21.  @adamdaniel8909  Idk why you think in 2024 Singapore is trying to defend itself from Malaysia. 💀
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  22.  @adamdaniel8909  So no, it's not "one word: Malaysia". Go read Lee Kuan Yew's book and learn.
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