What ethnicity is the average Singaporean? Culturally speaking,

Most are Chinese, English is the most spoken language with Mandarin being second.

>>70710472
culturally, people aren't singaporean as such. they're just mainland chinese, malay, indian etc

>>70710582
How does it survive as a city state if they have nothing in common? Surely there's an ideology binding them?

Mostly Malay/Chinese. Not that much different from Malaysia imo. But I think it's one of those rare occasions where the populations is unironically diverse. Nationalism is a thing from what I remember whilst growing up there.

>>70710472
Singapore is a country made up of mostly immigrants. the natives make up less than 20% of the total population. culturally there isn't much difference between us and our neighbours. nationalism is actually a thing to prevent segregation between different races and religions

>>70710672
No, just Chinese only. Malay is non-existence there because genocide.

>>70710650
Like most big cities in the West? It's just a city. Plenty of diverse cities survive just fine.

>>70710763
What type of immigrants are the majority? Chinese? In that case I can understand how it holds together, but if there's large groups of different ethnicities then wouldn't it cause ethnic violence?

For example, South Africa only holds together because of corrupt politicians who don't want to relinquish power, and during apartheid there were several insurgent groups and many ethnic clashes and massacres. Not just black vs white, but Zulu vs Xhosa etc

>>70710472
Majority is ethnic Chinese and then there are big Malay and Indian minorities.

>>70710888
Mainland chinese are the majority followed by mainland indians. we actually had a racial riot that happened decades ago. i guess the government do a good job implementing good laws to deter people to start riots and protests. nobody has time for these bullshit. you don't work, you don't get paid

>>70710937
>>> >>70710776

>>70711025
Do Indians also serve in the army?

>>70710650
It's a city built on hard capitalism, just like Hong Kong and pretty much every great country in the world.

Ethnic unity isn't required for a functioning nation as long as you don't hand out gibmedats to lazy migrants. Socialism is the real cancer, not migrants. See: Texas vs California

>>70711082
Wait, are you implying that there was a Malay genocide after the last census? Why can't I find anything about it?

>>70711145
all able-bodied Singaporean males are required to serve in the military after the age of 18. regardless of race or religion. serving in the military actually helps build camaraderie between us

>>70710650

yeah, the ideology is "keep the good times rolling" and maybe something about liberal capitalism

>>70711171
>>70711082
>Chinese 74.2%, Malay 13.3%, Indian 9.2%, other 3.3% (2013 est.)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sn.html

>>70711171
why are you listening to the malaysian? it's like asking Russians about Ukraine

>>70711464
Has there ever been any armed conflict between Singapore and Malaysia? Or any other countries near by?

>>70711464
I'm curious, does your government actually enforce the "No homosexual flirting" law in your country? I wanted to ask about it when I was in Singapore, but was afraid a local might assume I was a homo for asking that.

>>70710472
Droids and merch

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>>70710472
We're fine-nese

>>70711686
conflict here and there but nothing really serious. our neighbours give us peace in return for economic growth that we can provide for them.

>>70711758
the government doesn't actually enforce that rule. it's the religious and conservative folks that will give you a stink eye

>>70711686

Closest thing I could think of was the Malayan emergency, and that was during the 50s when Singapore was still a part of Malaysia

>>70710527
Even then, Mandarin didn't have much widespread use among the Chinese until the government started aggresive campaigns promoting its use, IIRC. (They even banned overseas TV broadcasts that might air Cantonese programming -at least that explains why newspapers there refused to air Malaysian TV listings according to Wikipedia...)

>>70711171
Nah, >>70710776 is just trolling you.

>>70711686
Nah, only "ORIGINUL RECIP DONUT STEAL" food fights from some citizens of both sides.

>>70714075
>Too many Nah
You can't be taken seriously.