Singapore recently celebrated It's “Racial harmony” day to mark peaceful coexistence of it’s people who emerge from various ethnic backgrounds. This Island nation has rightfully attached significant importance to this event and has been celebrating the rich mixture of diversity among its people nurturing feeling of comradeship and brotherhood year on year. Here the encouragement for racial equality and harmonious living is seen as a continuous ongoing process and not just being limited to a day, few examples of which are the public housing policies,Representation in social and regional committee etc.
It's quite surprising to find that somehow this idea of marking and celebrating the racial harmony seems to have gone unnoticed by members of international community. A quick search in google on “Racial harmony day” returns most of the result pages related to Singapore.
In this global village, isn’t there a need to mark and commemorate an International Day to celebrate ‘Racial harmony’ to promote tolerance and understanding among people of all races and religious backgrounds,? It certainly is, history stands as an example one of the common reasons of great sufferings and miseries of the people in this world has been the lack of empathy and understanding towards each other’s Race, Religion and culture.
Sure, when we can find a place for ‘Chocolate Day’, ‘Rose Day’, ‘Friendship Day’ etc in our International day’s list certainly we can and should have this day marked and celebrated world wide with the aim of fostering cohesion beyond boundaries.
The emergence of Singapore as a force to reckon with could be due to various factors, it’s future focus, Its efficiency in functioning , business oriented governance reforms, strong leadership and administration, Ability to attract and retain foreign talent etc but one would not disagree that it is the people of the nation that are the building blocks behind this success.
As the nation prepares to celebrate its National Day, Its time to remember its diverse people whose relentless effort has catapulted the name and fame of this Island nation to heights exponentially larger to its geographic size in the global arena.
Lets together, wish all Singaporeans and its residents an year full of economic Success, Peace and Prosperity on the occasion of Singapore National Day
Happy Birthday Singapore !!!
