He was speaking at the first Y-ChatRPT youth dialogue held at One Punggol Community Hub. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – Even as Singapore aspires to be a race-blind society, it must always acknowledge that it is going to be a work in progress, said Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong on Saturday.
“We made this work in spite of the differences that we had. We inherited a racially diverse community. We inherited a religious diversity community. And we set out to make it work by doing some things that many other countries in the world don’t have,” he said. “We can only set the parameters. We can tell people what you can’t do – you can’t go and stand on a soapbox and criticise other religions... but we can’t tell you to make friends, we can’t tell you what to do, we can’t tell you how to behave.”
Drawing on Saturday’s dialogue, the PAYM will gather 100,000 different voices from young people over the next three months, through both physical and virtual channels, to put together a vision of how a racially and religiously harmonious Singapore could look like.
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