As cosmopolitan as it gets

Thestar online
12 Jul 2008

SEAH CHIANG NEE

Singapore is becoming increasingly foreign – demographically speaking. The overall impact has been an economically and socially flourishing island state.

A SMALL state that’s big on clichés is one way I’ve heard us being described, but in recent weeks I have discovered just how apt one of them has come to reflect Singapore 2008.

That’s the word ‘cosmopolitan’ – or the more colourful phrase, ‘a hub of ethnicity’.

My education in diversity happened in – of all places – the Singapore General Hospital (SGH)!

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