"To begin with we don't have the ingredients of a nation, the elementary factors, a homogenous population, common language, common culture and common destiny.
We are migrants from southern China, southern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, before it was divided, Ceylon and the archipelago. So, the problem was, can we keep these peoples together?"
He is talking about the difficulty of ‘creating’ the nation-state of Singapore - with a population of 45 lakhs (4.5 million). To put that in perspective, that is less than the population of AIDS-affected in India. And to think that India believes that the success of Singapore has any lessons.
Lee Kuam Yew, who is sure that India will never grow beyond 60%-70% of China and how the Confucian ethic is superior.
One thing, Mr.Lee, why don’t you ever talk about how beneficial it was for you (meaning Singapore, since your family practically owns and runs Singapore) to become a client state of the US. That is the one lesson that Singapore can teach, Mr.Lee.
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