I am in Minnneapolis and will stay here for about one month. It wasn't a land too foreign. Because I had been here for nearly one year.
In America, as you will see in American movies, people yell, shout, and celebrate for terms such as Freedom, Independence, and Rights. Here's a passage from US Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
In Singapore, I don't think we care about freedom, independence, and rights so much. Whatever complain we had, it has to be instigated by Hollywood and not what we really feel. I would pretend Singapore's declaration to be:
We don't know if all men are equal (and who created them), but whoever the government is should endow their people with jobs, housing, and 4D shops. The government should create an environment that we don't have to care or think too much, that we can drink kopi and eat pow, shop and watch tv everyday. The government shall make sure that jobs will appear whenever we are in need (and preferably close by). Our government need not get our consent, and we don't really care what they do, so long as we have a good job, earn good money, expensive house and car, and credit cards. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, we hope the opposition will do something about it.
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