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EvilBuddha
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong also vowed to "safeguard the institution of marriage", defined as between a man and a woman
Considering his father LKY Harry’s views on the racial superiority of the Chinese, it’s a wonder that Singapore allows mixed race marriages.
It’s even funnier because LKY was a Peranakan (though he never publicly admitted it) and research has proven that Peranakans have Chinese-Malay ancestory.
Rodney
Porn on the internet, soft porn in the art gallery, but fashion, that’s a no no.
plasticmonkey
Singapore would be less boring if the authorities lightened up a bit. Most of Singapore is like Disneyland: clean, controlled, artificial.
ClippetyClop
It's like a giant hospital devoted to shopping. I worked there for 3 months and hated it. No soul.
Mr. Linnenbom
plasticmonkey: What's wrong with 'clean'?
Mr. Linnenbom
Hopefully Singapore sticks to its guns on these family and marriage issues!
starpunk
Singapore looks like a totalitarian dystopia. It may be clean and peaceful, but you get beat up for stepping on the grass and the city-state was started up by a statesman with a nationalistic ideology and a personality cult.
Soulless. Kind of like the dystopian society of the movie 'Logan's Run' - clean, controlled, with pleasures but not real and with a sinister oppressive undertone deep within.
2020hindsights
Mr. Linnenbom
I think he meant 'sterile'.
2020hindsights
Mr. Linnenbom
Unfortunately, Singapore has really fallen behind on marriage equality laws compared to its OECD peers. And this old-fashioned thinking isn't likely to change any time soon.
plasticmonkey
Yes, that is what I meant.
RowanM
What are clothes if not "materials and objects"?
Moonraker
I see Singapore as an extension of Changi Airport. In airports you get a mix of invasive, authoritarian control, mostly clean surroundings maintained by an underclass of cheap workers and rampant consumerism.