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Integration in Singapore (Positive experiences of integration and…

- - - - Examples
        
        National Integration Council
        
        The National Integration Council (NIC) was set-up in April 2009 to drive integration efforts in a comprehensive, sustainable and ground-up manner through the partnership of the public, people and private (3P) sectors
        
        The NIC engages in strategic partnerships and collaborations with partners from the public, people and private sectors to develop ground-up initiatives
        
        Community Integration Fund
        
        The Community Integration Fund (CIF) was launched by the National Integration Council (NIC) in September 2009 to support organisations in implementing ground-up integration initiatives
        
        The Fund supports ground-up projects that create
        opportunities for locals and foreigners to interact and better understand each other, as well as help newcomers better adapt to Singapore society ,norms and values
        
        About 85% of Singaporeans today live in public housing estates and 90% of citizens are homeowners. The public housing estates, managed by the government, have an enforced ethnic quota. Maximum proportions are set for the residents from various ethnic groups in these blocks of apartments.
        
        Self-help groups
        
        Chinese Development Assistance Council, Mendaki, Sinda and the Eurasian Association
        
        ethnic-centric focus of the four self-help groups, however, has not stopped them from joining forces to help the wider community
        
        they will set up a joint venture to run 30 school-based student care centres to better support the holistic development of children, especially those from less-advantaged backgrounds, by tapping the resources of all the groups
      - Integration emphasised through promoting equality without granting special right to any specific racial or ethnic group
      - Integration also achieved when diverse socio-cultural identities complement the national identity of being a Singaporean with their unique identities
      - Integration policies help the new immigrants to adapt to the norms, culture and values in Singapore
- - - - The Indicators of Racial and Religious Harmony — put together by the Institute of Policy Studies and OnePeople.sg, the national body for racial harmony — showed that Singaporeans were less comfortable with new Singaporeans as their boss, employee, or neighbour
        
        The biggest gap came from Singaporeans’ comfort level with having new immigrants making up the majority of people in the country — only about 50 per cent of respondents are comfortable with that idea, with most preferring the status-quo when it comes to Singapore’s current racial mix
      - Amy Cheong disparaged Malays on Oct 7 2012 on Facebook for what she perceived to be their low-cost and lengthy void-deck weddings, also mocking their divorce rate
        
        This enraged the Malay community and caused tensions to rise between the Malay community and other races
- - - - While diversity has boosted our economy and increased opportunities to learn from each other and share each other's expertise in fields of research so as to make our technology and scientific research advance forward
      - At the same time diversity is also what started all the racial tensions and the disharmony between people of different ethnic groups and race, which ultimately will lead to riots and cause instability to the country
      - I do embrace diversity because I feel that while diversity has been known to cause disharmony and tensions between citizens of the country, this is outweighed by the greater benefits that diversity can bring to the entire country to bring the country forward with healthy and beneficial interactions between people of various expertise
  - - - It assumes living together means integration
        
        Singaporeans, by and large, tend not to mix around or even acknowledge their neighbours, which means the core function of the EIP doesn’t really work here
        
        Example of Amy Cheong who disparaged Malays on Oct 7 2012 on Facebook for what she perceived to be their low-cost and lengthy void-deck weddings, also mocking their divorce rate
        
        Possible solution is to try to organise more activities to encourage bonding and interactions between Singaporeans and foreigners to foster stronger bonds and relationships
      - “Intrusive” social policies tend to generate societal backlash
        
        The government may take on a more encouraging stand to persuade better integration but at the same time if there is no government force the policy may just fall apart