AffairBoard

Conservative Singapore

Notice: Undefined variable: button in /home/content/15/8824515/html/affairboard.com/wp-content/plugins/tweetmeme/tweetmeme.php on line 33

Singapore is the prosperous, hi-tech island with ports and tall skyscrapers. The economic world and the world of business and technology and manufacturing thrives in this city. Singapore is a world leader in the production and manufacturing of high definition television and broadcasting. The industries of tourism and service have grown over the last ten years with many new tourist attractions, business convention centers, restaurants and Singapore luxury hotels. It is a city that remains, however, entrenched in conservatism.

More than 79 percent of the population is Chinese. Immigration has made the city more culturally diverse over the years with more traveling from Malaysia and India in search of employment. The government is seeking to bring more visitors to the island in order to insure the continued growth of the nation. Already, the people of Singapore enjoy a very high standard of living. So for the most part, life on the island is good. The conservatism of the country, and the prime minister Lee Hsien Loong has come into question over the years however. Initiatives put forth by the government encourage the people to learn how to speak ‘good English’ and to be always courteous and polite. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it is under government ruling. Singapore has a very strict capital punishment policy, in fact the city has the reputation of the highest number of executions per ca pita each year. While the crime rate remains low in Singapore with regards to violent crime, it is the drug traffickers and those in possession of any illegal substances, who are being given the death sentence. When questioned whether the punishment seemed extreme for the offense, Lee Hsien Long replied that drugs tear down a person and thus a society and that he would rather put an immediate end to a situation than to wait to pick up the pieces. The problem human rights groups, such as Amnesty International, see with this is that it is carried out too swiftly in some cases, without thorough investigation. And that perhaps innocent people are being punished.

Related posts:

1. Grand Prix in Singapore
2. Singapore Preparing for and Preventing Disaster
3. Options for Family Fun in Singapore
4. Modes of Transportation on the Island of Singapore
5. Techno Singapore

Tags: conservative, law, Singapore

No comments yet.

Leave a comment