Is Singapore’s Multiracial Society Under Threat from the Recent Influx of Immigrants?

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I agree that Singapore’s multiracial society is under threat from the recent influx of immigrants. This issue is important to Singapore society as it is the bulk of maintaining social stability in Singapore. The recent influx of immigrants allow Singaporeans to develop a sense of insecurity as immigrants might threaten the amount of job opportunities and the privileges a Singaporean should have in the first place. Therefore, Singaporeans will be unhappy as they will feel that immigrants are trying to snatch everything from them and it will also allow Singaporeans to feel that they have a weak national identity as they cannot come together to use a strong national identity to stop the immigrants from entering Singapore. Summing it all up, Singaporeans will find it hard to accept the presence of immigrants. When they cannot accept the presence of immigrants, it shows people that Singaporeans are not big hearted and caring enough to accept the presence of foreigners, not caring about their feelings. This will then strain the relationship between immigrants and citizens and thus, the communities will no longer be closely knitted enough. If this happens, Singaporeans will not be able to accept the cultures of the immigrants and thus, cultural clashes will occur after quite some time and conflicts between Singaporeans and the immigrants will start to rise. Hence, Singapore’s multiracial society will be under threat as Singaporeans will prevent immigrants from entering Singapore. For this issue to happen there are bound to have some main causes of it. One of the main causes of this issue is that Singaporeans are having conflicts with immigrants in term of social and economic due to the influx of immigrants and they fear that immigrants will push them out of the country as immigrants are needed to contribute to the development of Singapore. For example, according to the

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