http://fullpowertotheshields.blogspot.com/2009/03/singapore-family-dictatorship-with.html

There is an important difference…Malaysia is majority Malay…whereas Singapore is majority Chinese. Indians are about 10% (or slightly less) of both.

friends and relatives (who have visited the place) describe some portions of that country are like a “sanitized, cleaner version of India”.

I can vouch for one thing…you can get excellent Tamil food in Singapore.

Although I have never been to Singapore, friends and relatives (who have visited the place) describe some portions of that country are like a “sanitized, cleaner version of India”.

My impression is that the equality is somewhat superficial; the same racial divisions and prejudices exist, but they’re informal, unspoken and wallpapered over by official policy. A friend resented it so much that she left to come to the west.

I visited once and was struck by how underdeveloped the ‘brown’ area (around Mustafa’s) was compared to other parts of the city which seemed overwhelmingly chinese in makeup…it seemed that there was significant socioeconomic stratification along racial lines

Singapore definitely has serious flaws but looking across the way at Malaysia shows you how much worse it could have been…extending that, look at Sri Lanka, a country that was ahead of Sgp/Sk/Taiwan 50 years ago in every category…imagine how things could have been had its leaders adopted a more secular, egalitarian outlook on independence rather than a divisive, vindictive one?

Singapore is a brutal dictatorship. In addition to suppressing political dissent, thegovernment actively participates in ethnic manipulation. For example, neighborhoodsare always planned so Indians comprise no more than 25% of an apartment complex. TheStrait Times is propaganda mouthpiece of the corrupt regime of Lew Kuan Yew. As inMalaysia, there is a great deal prejudice against Indians in Singapore. Read a bit from a http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/ Search google with Singapore dictatorship.

The reason why there is quota in public housing in Singapore has nothing to do with keeping minorities down – in fact it is the opposite. When Singapore became independent from Malaya, there were a lot of racial riots in the country. Races lived in their own communities and were segregated. As a measure to decrease racial tensions, the government required a quota based system for government housing. This is based on the breakdown of race demographics within the country. Indians only compromise about 8-9% of the population.

Malaysia’s problems with Indian minorities is very different than Singapore’s. Singapore tries to advocate a secular, equal society (of course this isn’t always possible). Malaysia has always put Malay’s rights above other minorities, which is one reason why Indians are fighting back in the country.

I don’t think people have found that out yet, atleast in India. A guide told me at the 1500 year old Kailasanathar temple in Kanchipuram (see the picture in the link) that it has not been figured out what is used to color the sculptures. So the sculptures are deteriorating, it’s a pity.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1399097829074389251zrIxba link

p.s. an article for khoofia about the ancient Egyptians paint techniques

thanks bess. i oved the description here. i fee quite smart aready and wi reproduce for genera consumption.

The ancient Egyptian artist used six colors: black, white, red, green, yellow and blue. The pigments, ground with a pestle, were mixed with water and glue, gum or egg as a binding agent. Each color had a symbolic meaning, and the gods were often depicted with different skin colors. Black, representative of death and night, was derived from carbon compounds like charcoal and soot. White, a reference to omnipotence and purity, was created from chalk and gypsum. Artists mixed red, a symbol of life, victory, anger and fire, by combining naturally oxidized iron and red ochre. Green, symbolic of vegetation and new life, was created by mixing oxides of copper and iron with silica and calcium or derived from malachite. Natural ochre, oxides and orpiment (arsenic trisulfide) were all used to make yellow, like the sun and gold, eternal and indestructible. Blue, symbolic of the sky and water and used to reference the Nile, is often visible on temple ceilings. Artists created blue paint by mixing iron and copper oxides with silica and calcium.