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Singapore's indigenous culture originates primarily from the Austronesian people that arrived from the island of Taiwan, settling between 1500 and 1000 BCE.It was then influenced during the Middle Ages primarily by multiple Chinese dynasties such as the Ming and Qing, as well as by other Asian countries such as the Majapahit Empire, Tokugawa shogunate, and the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Kiasuism is noticed in regard to Singaporean attitudes towards education. Due to the elite nature of Singaporean society, success is often measured by how well one performs at school. [28] Therefore, to get ahead of others and be successful, students perform kiasu acts such as the kiasu-negative tactic of sandbagging. [33]
The perception of technical and vocational education in Singapore are slowly changing as parents are starting to realise that there are alternative choices for decent employment outcomes as the greater Singaporean society values vocational and technical skills highly and sees them as crucial to the country's economic and financial development. [74]
According to this line of argument, Singapore, along with Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, had succeeded so spectacularly in no small part because of their shared Confucianist cultural heritage, which emphasised values such as hard work, education, family unity, deference and loyalty to authority figures, community spirit (in contrast ...
The Goh Report critiqued the Bilingual policy as ineffective bilingualism leading to the main cause of language education problems in Singapore. [36] Although the Bilingual policy resulted in a rise in overall literacy rate, [39] statistics reveal that less than 40% of the School-going Students had the minimum competency level in two languages ...
After Singapore gained independence, the government has maintained continuous efforts to promote the language at the expense of other Chinese varieties in an effort to benefit from China's increasing importance on the world stage, although they claimed that it is to ensure that Chinese Singaporeans know about their ethnic roots, culture and ...
Singapore education-related lists (1 C, 4 P) A. Academia in Singapore (2 C, 1 P) E. Educational organisations based in Singapore (6 C, 4 P) Singaporean educators (4 C ...
Indonesian-Singaporean culture (1 C) Singaporean international schools (3 C, 2 P) L. Languages of Singapore (7 C, 24 P) LGBTQ culture in Singapore (1 C, 13 P)