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Recognising our imperfections is part of what makes Singapore whole
Turning 60, the Republic faces a middle-aged reckoning: learning to be relaxed about its flaws.
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Acknowledging our flaws shows a quiet confidence and clarifies where we must go and what we must improve, says the writer.
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Last year, around National Day, just after I had moved back to Singapore, I wrote about seeing the country again with fresh eyes – how we seemed kinder, gentler and more at ease with our multiracialism.
My point was that in the eyes of a returnee like myself, it is far more apparent that the experiment our founders embarked on six decades ago is succeeding, even if day-to-day life sometimes obscures that progress.
