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Nice smileys dude!I found this interesting article on the online forums - The First Tier of the First World about how Singapore is being benchmarked. While no doubt we are doing very well according to certain benchmarks, we are not doing so well in other areas too. It is about the perspective we take, but if we only insist to see things in our best light, then perhaps descriptions like “myopic” and “narrow minded” serves us best.
Here is a sobering statement from the article for those of you who can’t be bothered to read it.
Singapore was ranked 130th out of 178 countries for Happiness, 40th out of 41 countries for Libido, 30th out of 35 countries for Courtesy, 105th in the world for Income Equality, 140th out of 167 countries for Press Freedom, and 15th out of 16 countries in the Asia Democracy Index, and we have been 5th in the world for Prisoners Per Capita.
-The First Tier of the First World, by Leong Sze Hian & Choo Zheng Xi, theonlinecitizen