Social cohesion, and racial and religious harmony can only flourish when everyone feels a strong belonging to Singapore, when everyone feels that Singapore is truly their home, and that what binds us together as a nation is far more important than our individual or communal differences.
As technology advances, many people have access to the internet and the internet is very vulnerable. It just take one person to make racist posts or comments to spur racial tensions and conflicts. Recently,Shimun Lai, a 19-year-old student allegedly pursuing the Diploma in Diagnostic Radiography at Nanyang Polytechnic, tweeted a racially insensitive comment about a minority race in Singapore, which has gone viral in the social media. So it shows that it just takes one person to spark racial conflicts and spur racial tensions.
As there are more immigrants coming into Singapore, competition has rose. In many classes, there are at least 1/4 of the class who are foreigners and most of the time these foreigners top the class and get scholarships, so Singaporeans would feel unhappy and would feel injustice as these foreigners are not Singaporeans and they would think that they should not be competing with them and should go back to their country.
To curb the speed of racial/religious intolerance, the government can set stricter rules and heavier punishment for those who are racist. The community can make posters that encourages people not to be racist. Parents should guide their child and constantly remind them the consequences of racism and the child should think before they do something that may spur racial or religious tensions. Thus, the speed of racial/religious intolerance might be curbed.
sources:http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/03/racially-insensitive-comment-by-poly-student/
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