✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Lee Kuan Yew's Legacy For Singapore: A Language Policy For A Globalized World

forbes.com · 945 words · saved by 1 readers

As a Singaporean attending college abroad, I often reflect about how my upbringing has made me a product of who I am. On Monday morning at home, friends, family and fellow citizens woke up to the news that the founding father of modern Singapore, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, passed away. He lost a battle with severe pneumonia that morning but in his lifetime, he won many others. There was the fight for survival so chronicled in our national history textbooks – his leadership of a nation with no natural resources, no hinterland, almost nothing, taking a country many doomed to failure from “Third World to First,” the title of one of his autobiographies. There were the crackdowns on dissidents and opposition politicians, which he believed was the necessary price for social order and economic success. It is his bilingual policy that I have been reflecting deeply about. As a relatively successful young Singaporean who did well enough in school to earn a spot in an American college – I see myself and my

Forbes Magazine Forbes Asia Lee Kuan Yew's Legacy For Singapore: A Language Policy For A Globalized World By Yunita Ong , Contributor. Follow Author Mar 23, 2015, 01:42pm EDT Mar 23, 2015, 10:58pm EDT This article is more than 10 years old. As a Singaporean attending college abroad, I often reflect about how my upbringing has made me a product of who I am. On Monday morning at home, friends, family and fellow citizens woke up to the news that the founding father of modern Singapore, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, passed away. He lost a battle with severe pneumonia that morning but in his lifetime, he won ma

Explore this link on the map →

related reading