SINGAPORE: Being 'woke' can be a good thing, if it means making people more socially aware of issues. But when it comes to changing social norms, it is better for the country to “make haste slowly' because 'you never know what comes the day after', said
SINGAPORE: Being"woke" can be a good thing, if it means making people more socially aware of issues.
The annual conference, held at the Institute of Technical Education College East this year, was attended by around 200 youths. “If people are more socially aware of issues, I think that's a good thing. if people are wanting to stifle debate, or stifle responses, that's not a good thing,” he said. “Now what we regard very quickly as a microaggression — we're very sensitive to it, and rightly so. It was the norm all the time in the old days, not because people were being bigoted or unfriendly… people looked at each other as people of different races first and foremost,” he said.
"It has to start from young. Part of education has to be developing the ability to have civic discourse — listening to each other and understanding differences and finding common ground — and where we can't find common ground ... accepting those differences but remaining Singaporean together."
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