tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125252959673908192.post5343220223173733339..comments2023-10-17T02:18:25.922-07:00Comments on Beyond The Emotive: A reply to "We are no longer a nation of immigrants"Calvin Chenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14443765586549198598noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125252959673908192.post-46534958388866254362013-02-21T05:18:40.431-08:002013-02-21T05:18:40.431-08:00Sorry mate. Don't wanna speculate on the PAP&#...Sorry mate. Don't wanna speculate on the PAP's motives. But regardless, it's housing policy did encourage mixing. The abolition of language-based schools helped also.<br /><br />If you look across the causeway, there is still a lot of segregation. Worst of all are the race-based political parties. Different races still study in different schools.<br /><br />The dream of a Malaysian Malaysia may be all but finished.Calvin Chenghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14443765586549198598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125252959673908192.post-43290450794458496442013-02-21T01:28:11.411-08:002013-02-21T01:28:11.411-08:00Thanks Calvin for responding to my recent article....Thanks Calvin for responding to my recent article. <br /><br />I am glad that you acknowledges that the move to integrate was at least partially organic. You claim that the Government's deliberate public housing policy encouraged racial mixing. Was PAP Government's ethnic integration policy purely altruistic?<br /><br />"In the late 1980s,the PAP government introduced two more schemes to manage ethnic relations in the country.To guarantee the political representation of ethnic minorities, the PAP government pushed through an electoral quota scheme (Group Representative Constituency, GRC) which brought brought a multi-member district party block vote plurality system to its single-member district plurality system. The following year the government imposed a racial quota on public housing (Ethnic Integrated Housing Policy, EIP) to prevent any ethnic minority group from exceeding 20 percent in one constituency. In the first-past-the-post electoral system based on territorial constituencies, the geographical distribution of voters is critical to the outcome of votes." (Link:http://www.law.nyu.edu/ecm_dlv3/groups/public/@nyu_law_website__conferences/documents/documents/ecm_pro_074075.pdf)Ravihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15419680141901962456noreply@blogger.com