What are some of the common core values developed among all Singaporeans?
This is a question we must ask when we come to the issue of finding a ‘‘‘identity’’’ for Singaporeans. It comes from our roots in history of our people whom we all can be proud. If there is one, it is our willingness to survive in spite all obstacles, all odds against us. I remembered when the days when my mother would get up early to go and work in the construction sites as a coolie to feed me and my siblings, however sometimes the Kang towkay would not be able pay her fellow coolies or she wuld be cheated time and again, and with no money to bring home! Yet, we all survive! Singaporeans will always remember these people our forebears had survived and they are our heroes and heroines to recall! The true value of any Singaporean is the ability to overcome our situations and difficulties and survive well. I speak for a lot of us here! I remembered those days when my Grandfather and grandmother spoke of the Japanese occupation: yet in spite all the bad things around them, they spoke o
