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What were the measures taken to foster social cohesion(unity among the people)in multi-ethnic Singapore?

In Singapore's education system, every single student will go through

• Civic and Moral Education,


• History


• Social Studies

Civic and Moral Education

Students will learn the correct ways to communicate and live together with people from different countries and races living together in Singapore.

This enables student to learn the correct attitude and values towards people of different backgrounds so as to achieve our peaceful multi-ethnic Singapore :D







History lessons


During history lessons, we learn about things, events that happened in the past.

For example: In our secondary 2 history education, we studied about the history of Singapore, how Singapore walked through her darkest time till how we managed to establish our modern city today.

We also learned about riots that took place in Singapore even before the times when we are born. Riots like the ....

• Maria Hertogh riots


• Hock Lee bus riots


• Chinese Middle School riots


• 1954 National service riots


• 1964 Race riots

All these happened and made the people living in Singapore now to realise the importance of accepting each other. During these riots, many innocent lives were taken away. This teaches us an important lesson, which brings us to LIVING IN HARMONY.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Now in social studies lessons, we learned about

• Singapore-A National In The World


• Governance in Singapore


• Managing Health care


• Conflicts In Multi-Ethnic Societies


• Bonding Singapore


• Managing Peace and Security

This gives us a clearer image of Singapore's past and present, enabling us to be certain about how government managing Singapore. To keep in contact us the society and current affairs.






RACIAL HARMONY DAY



In Singapore, every school celebrates Racial Harmony Day, which represents a day for schools to reflect on, and celebrate Singapore's success as a racially harmonious nation.






In schools all across the nation on that day, students are encouraged to be dressed in their traditional costumes and even crossing over to other costumes of other races.

Traditional delicacies are also featured in the celebrations.

Traditional games are played in schools especially in primary schools, where inter-class competitions are sometimes organised to educate us on the different cultures of different races.


On this day, we get to experience the great golden culture of other races :D





PLEDGE


In Singapore,

we practice the habit of reciting the pledge and singing the national anthem on every school days during the morning assembly. This not only made us memorise the sentences in the pledge but also understands the meaning the purpose behind it.

Reciting the pledge everyday enables us to start the day with a positive mind.

• We, the citizens of Singapore,
  pledge ourselves as one united people,
  regardless of race, language or religion,
  to build a democratic society
  based on justice and equality
  so as to achieve happiness, prosperity and
  progress for our nation.