Six words are all that netizen Prakash Kumar needed to counter former twice premier-cum-Proklamasi Melayu chief advocate Tun Dr Mahatnir Mohamad who most recently claimed that migrants who wish to continue their linkage with their countries of origin “cannot claim ownership of this country”.
i only know Singaporeans like to say things such as : FroM zEro tO hErO… as if the 3 other Asian Tigers didn’t start from zero… Japan literally had two suns rising from two cities, Korea was dirt poor, Taiwan was under martial law and had a facist government for many decades.
Yea, their myth of being a poor kampung, a tiny red dot etc etc, totally depends on one having historical amnesia about their centrality as a trading port and eventually British colony as well as an important proxy in the Pacific theatre of the Cold War.