Governmental influences on Social Cohesion - Assessing Singapore’s Nation Building Tools

Abstract

Nowadays, in European countries we see more and more right wing parties emerging. These ethnic struggles have been initialized by a faster pace of globalization processes. Multicultural policies employed are not efficient enough anymore. Singapore a nation of multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multireligious composition has on paper a perfect system that works. The question however is, if this is really true. In this thesis I will assess the Singaporean nation building tools.