Racist episodes sparks soul-searching in Singapore: ‘Why is this still happening?’


Some critics blame imported ‘foreign ideas’ for sowing dissent, but scholars say the younger generation is unafraid of the vocabulary of global racial discourse.

SINGAPORE: When a Singaporean woman of Indian descent was struck by a flying kick from an ethnic Chinese man spouting racial slurs last month, the attack was so alarming that it prompted Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to call it a moment of national embarrassment.

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