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Flew halfway around the world to singapore, and i sure as shit am not eating french food when i am here. >> damian: no, you're right. you shouldn't. >> anthony: and you know what? i'm 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 you're saying that basically, you're talking about the dinosaurs. >> damian: yeah, this no longer exists, tony. it's gone. >> anthony: one of the things i admire about singaporean food cultur...

Singapore is very good. same time, singaporeans are very hard working. as human beings, what we need? food to eat, clothes to wear, a place to sleep, you can get in singapore. so in other words, we have to continue work, you see. if you're working, you'll get something, once lazy, you're out. >> anthony: by some measures, singapore is a welfare state, taking care of the less fortunate, but at its heart, it's a cold blooded meritocracy. you follow the rules -- and there are many, work hard, and you will have a good life. that's the message. >> najip: we are starting to define the definition of ...

I think that's the big kind of singapore. >> anthony: so is there angst? >> sudhir: yeah. definitely there's angst. >> tanya: but i think there is no outlet for it. so everybody is going online, but everybody wants to be anonymous about it. >> melanie: even online, they have paid the price for it. people have been let go of their jobs, and that's the price that we have to pay. >> anthony: the price may seem pretty high by american standards. no political descent, no right to assembly, a restricted press, and limited freedom of speech. sadir vadaketh, melanie chan and tanya angerer. all singapo...

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Singapore has fully embraced globalization. and that's proved in their case very rewarding. >> donald: singapore is an outsized economic port primarily because it's 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 writout inabngapore's unique financial policies.