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Tactical mistake, because i just flew halfway around the world to singapore, and i sure as shit am not eating french food when i am here. >> damian: no, youre right. you shouldnt. >> anthony: and you know what? im not going to eat japanese food. >> damian: so you talk about peranakan cuisine, right? are there people who cook it today? i can tell you out of 100 peranakans, maybe 1. >> anthony: whoa. >> damian: maybe one. >> anthony: so youre saying that basically, youre talking about the dinosaur...

>> melanie: yes, i think so. >> tanya: yes. you know why, i think thats because of maids. >> anthony: what are maids? >> tanya: maids, as in helpers. >> sudhir: helpers. >> tanya: i think youll find that actually, if you look at singapore, a lot of woman are in the workforce. and the reason why that is so is because everyones got a maid looking after their child at home. so maids are kind of like the opiate of the masses. >> anthony: wait, opiate keeps you slothful and laying on the couch. >> ta...

>> anthony: 20 more hawker centers. >> goh: in which i say, "where the hell are the hawkers coming from?" >> anthony: well, thats a good question. where are they going to come from? >> goh: theres a lot of insinuations of an answer, but no true answer. >> anthony: the answer is not from singapore, right? theyre going to have to come in from china. >> goh: for the 15,000, or 20,000 food stalls like this we have in singapore, if its public run like this one, you cant hire foreigners. its meant for...

Financial policies. >> donald: you know, this place is almost contrary to the founders original expectations. this place was this multiethnic meritocratic idea, this pragmatic understanding that free trade is good for everyone. this is place is, after 50 years, is deeply imprinted in singapore. its remarkable how open and welcoming of diversity singapore still is. >> anthony: we are now living in times where globalism and globalization are bad words. we are seeing a rise of -- >> donald: yeah, i...

Excuse me... good choice. well, changing can do a little good... dude abides. ♪ ♪ >> cab driver: singapore is a multinational society. we got chinese, malay, indian, and other races in singapore. >> anthony: it seems to work. >> cabby: yeah, it works. it works, yeah. ♪

Expectations among the liberals and progressives have just gone so far ahead, including myself. because sometimes, we need a reality check about what pace society can move at. so i think thats the tension, its that economic growth has happened so quickly and sometimes, social laws, social customs, might need to take a bit more time. >> anthony: you know, a place where everything works this well and a system so seemingly different than the one we are taught to venerate, thats generally confusing....

Company, establishing at first as a trading post for the british empire. soon thereafter, singapore grew, quickly becoming a economic hub and regional capital for the british empires new colony on the malayan peninsula. after world war ii, singapore clamored for independence, first becoming part of the malaysian federation, then a fully independent state in 1965. helmed by its first prime minister, lee kwan yeu, tiny singapore famously went from a third world outpost to a first world nation in a...

It is the busiest transshipment point on the planet. singapore has fully embraced globalization. and thats proved in their case very rewarding. >> donald: singapore is an outsized economic port primarily because its so attractive to foreign entrepreneurs primarily in the form of multinational corporations. so right from the start, the economic strategy was always to attract foreign capital. >> anthony: donald low is an economist who spent over ten years researching and writing about singapores u...

>> anthony: a lot of social engineering has been superimposed to hold that together, and i think what a lot of westerners who come to singapore come here skeptical are often reluctantly holding to the inescapable conclusion that it seems to work. >> donald: it seems to work. but of course, the post independence singapore government has been often accused of being extremely keen and extremely competent at social engineering. of course, the most powerful instrument of social engineering is public ...

>> cab driver: in singapore, everything is perfect here. this is one of the safest countries in the world. we are gifted to be in singapore. we show some good examples to the world. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪