Ensuring Peace and Security

Peace and Security are key to a nation's development. In order for Singapore to continue to improve and stay relevant, we feel that there need to be a few changes and additional policies to be implemented., namely the few that we have listed below:

1.Setting up organisations to integrate foreigners to Singapore’s society better

With an ageing population and a declining birth rate, our country has become short of manpower. Hence, there have been a large number of foreigners landing on our shores, offering their expertise in various field, and attracting Multi-National Co operations(MNCs) into Singapore. Whilst our economy has benefited from this, in recent years there has been much social unrest amongst Singporeans, and a stigma has been formed towards foreigners. In a long run, Singapore will not benefit from this as we will lose our social cohesion. Hence, we suggest implementing organisations that will help integrate foreigners into our society.

Such organisations will aim to integrate foreigners through a three-pronged strategy;
-Adapting into a new environment
-Assimilating into society
-Allowing for greater friendship

"Adapting into a new environment" places emphasis on allowing foreigners to understand Singapore's physical landscape-the locations of shopping malls, hospitals, and other such amenities. A session on navigation in Singapore's public transport system of Mass Rapid transport(MRT) and buses will also be conducted. Foreigners will also be taken on a tour of Singpoare and will be assisted into settling into theiw new housing.

"Assimilating into society": This handles the more social aspect of adapting to life in a new country. Foreigners will attend a few sessions at these centres and learn about Singpore's history, unique culture, and the "do"s and "don't"s in a multi-racial country, for example respecting the various places of worship. Foreigners will also be taught how to interact with locals better and perhaps learn a little of our "native language", Singlish!

"Allowing for greater friendship" focuses on fostering strong bonds between locals and foreigners. Such organisations will provide for intercultural exchanges, as well as gatherings to allow locals and foreigners to understand each other better and form strong bonds, strengthening Singapore as a society.


2. Promote racial and religious harmony through the education system, teaching students about other cultures
As current students, we feel that Moral Education is not well-emphasized. The moral education unit should be given more emphasis and teachers should undergo training in order to teach such a module to students. Furthermore, the scope of coverage needs to be wider: students not only need to learn about the cultures and traditions of the four main races in Singapore, but also that of the foreigners that enter our gates. Furthermore, students should be taught not to discriminate between "Singapore Singaporeans" and "Foreign Singaporeans" but to see us all as simply, Singaporeans.

3.National Education
Students need to have the values of protecting their country and pride in her instilled in them. They should learn about the challenges that Singapore is facing as well as the relevance of them in today's society. Therefore, more emphasis should be placed on National Education as well and more creative methods should be employed to teach students, such as through educational movies and performances.