Is there much racism in Singapore?

Plenty

Reading the doctoral thesis of Lily Zubaidah Rahim, The Singapore Dilemma, has made me think about the issue of racial discrimination.. The conspicuous absence of this book from the shelves of Singapore bookstores is yet another sad example of the practice of self-censorship among people running bookstores in Singapore. Our NUS Central Library is even cuter, the book is available only in the Singapore-Malaysia Collection and the 'Closed Stacks'! Imagine, a book that was published in 1998 ending up in the Closed Stacks; what was that common NUS joke again about girls in their first year being like RBR books, girls in their second year being in the Main Shelves, and finally in the Closed Stacks when they are in their third year J? But again, we are talking about NUS, where its bookstore played a mini hide and seek with James Gomez's book on self-censorship, best described

It doesn't matter where you go anywhere in the world (except possibly Antarctica), you will have some people who are racist. As a general rule if you are respectfulof the culture, not racist yourself to the locals and are not outspoken about how good your culture is, then you shouldn't experience much in the way of racism anywhere you go.

There may be a very small number of individual exist here. However, generally it is not displayed openly. There are many cases, the causes are not related to racial or sex issues but on other needs, such as, languages and sex preferences for certain jobs etc, but many may relate these as racism. U don't expect a boss will hire a non-Chinese who can't communicate in Mandarin or dialects to deal with a majority of Chinese-speaking customers/clients. Which organisation will restrict it customers to speak only English?

Of course, every country has it anyway.