An Alternative Tropical Education: Things You Didn't Know About Singapore

[aduvingion]

The concept of the city-state has been in existence for centuries. From the poleis of Ancient Greece such as Athens, Corinth, Sparta and Thebes, to the Italian city-states of Florence, Genoa, Milan and Venice, these independent entities once dominated the geopolitical landscape. Today, however, only three sovereign city-states exist in the entire

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[m_ikki]

if i could like your journal entry, it deserves a BIG LIKE :)

100% agreed. some of these questions i don't even want to deal with or answer sometimes. hahah yes, please answer the next 'you speak good english' with 'so do you'. although, i think that qn is slightly less annoying then people looking very amused and happy when they say 'are you from singapore? i hear the accent!' -.- (i think trying to picture them interacting with the heartlanders would be quite a sight)

but yes, it really is to do with the education. which is why in many ways, i say the singapore education is structured well. we do have rather ignorant people in singapore admittedly, but that might be an issue of opportunities and exposure.

perhaps it is the humility of the asian mentality too. to feel that they are less than others and that they should learn and know more. you think?

[aduvingion]

Yeah, except it tends to be Malaysians/Singaporeans who recognise the accent. If it's a Westerner who can recognise it, he/she probably knows more about Singapore than average anyway. You might have a point about the Asian mentality. It would go some way to explaining why we have a number of Asian countries (Japan, South Korea, Singapore) that are so heavily influenced by the West today, despite having (in the case of Japan and South Korea at least) centuries of their own cultural heritage. The situation is probably more complex than I'm making it out to be, but yeah, I think if we were to be very stereotypical, Americans are probably more happy to be ignorant.

[ext_165609]

Niggling points: I'd replace "grown" with "increased" in the sentence "Complementing this is a policy of land reclamation" etc. in the 9th paragraph. There's a "thee" in the 10th paragraph wh/ I guess you meant to be a "the". In that sentence, you also use the word "land" twice, wh/ you might want to change. Also, I'm not one for exclamation marks, unless you're mimicking another voice, but that's just a personal preference.

I would also get rid of the sentence beginning "If these loosely interconnected facts"; I would just go into explaining their unity. Good final two paragraphs.