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Race in Singapore: What topics are due for discussion, and how?
Discrimination, racial classification and the role of race and identity in policies are among hot topics. Observers say education, data are key
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Stereotyping and discrimination, the listing of race on Singapore’s identity cards and the country’s growing mixed-race population were among issues raised by Singaporeans in an informal poll.
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Justin Ong
Mr Zacharoy Dass has mixed feelings on Singapore's CMIO - Chinese-Malay-Indian-Others - classification framework.
As the son of a Singaporean-Indian father and Singaporean-Chinese mother, who studied Chinese, he appreciates how it was easier to get a new Housing Board flat when he and his Singaporean-Chinese wife applied as a minority-race couple.
