Nurturing a culture of conviction: Developing the arts is a critical means of building S’pore’s resilience

Singapore celebrates its 50th year of independence next year, but what it means to beSingaporean continues to be a topic of discussion and debate.Of late, there have been passionate reactions to criticism of Singapore from those in ourmidst, Singaporeans and foreigners alike. To counter British writ...

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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-34762017-08-11T01:30:27Z Nurturing a culture of conviction: Developing the arts is a critical means of building S’pore’s resilience HOE, Su Fern Singapore celebrates its 50th year of independence next year, but what it means to beSingaporean continues to be a topic of discussion and debate.Of late, there have been passionate reactions to criticism of Singapore from those in ourmidst, Singaporeans and foreigners alike. To counter British writer Charlotte Ashton’slabelling of Singapore as suffering from a “massive compassion deficit”, bloggers andletter writers to the media cited examples of people giving up their seats to those in needon the MRT or going the extra mile to help strangers. 2014-04-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2219 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3476/viewcontent/pa_Su_fern_TD_Nurturing_a_culture_of_conviction_0304141.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Sociology of Culture
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Nurturing a culture of conviction: Developing the arts is a critical means of building S’pore’s resilience
description Singapore celebrates its 50th year of independence next year, but what it means to beSingaporean continues to be a topic of discussion and debate.Of late, there have been passionate reactions to criticism of Singapore from those in ourmidst, Singaporeans and foreigners alike. To counter British writer Charlotte Ashton’slabelling of Singapore as suffering from a “massive compassion deficit”, bloggers andletter writers to the media cited examples of people giving up their seats to those in needon the MRT or going the extra mile to help strangers.
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author HOE, Su Fern
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title Nurturing a culture of conviction: Developing the arts is a critical means of building S’pore’s resilience
title_short Nurturing a culture of conviction: Developing the arts is a critical means of building S’pore’s resilience
title_full Nurturing a culture of conviction: Developing the arts is a critical means of building S’pore’s resilience
title_fullStr Nurturing a culture of conviction: Developing the arts is a critical means of building S’pore’s resilience
title_full_unstemmed Nurturing a culture of conviction: Developing the arts is a critical means of building S’pore’s resilience
title_sort nurturing a culture of conviction: developing the arts is a critical means of building s’pore’s resilience
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