to desegregate schools and integrate neighborhoods through executive actions. those efforts were largely abandoned by the 1980s and since then the data shows an america that remains strikingly segregated. this has translated into unequal access to security basic health care and crucially, education. despite the fact that the supreme court ordered school desegregation 61 years ago, schools have actually become less diverse in the last two decades. a ucla study last year pointed out that many black and latino students quote, face almost total isolation, not only from white and asian students but also from middle class peers as well. these findings would not surprise the singaporeans. the natural workings of society rarely lead to diverse and integrated communities, not in singapore, not anywhere else