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The situation in Singapore isn’t exactly the same as that in the West, but there are sufficient similarities between cosmopolitan groups in Singapore and “Anywheres,” and between Heartlanders in Singapore and Goodhart’s “Somewheres” to merit careful consideration

, associate editor Chua Mui Hoong captured some of the downsides of Singapore’s remarkable economic success over time.

Chua views such moves positively, as do I, and we both support more moves in that direction going forward. Anywheres are the cosmopolitan globally-oriented elites with the types of knowledge-based skills and intellectual and cultural capital that are translatable across space, and that is, in a sense, borderless.

“Somewheres,” on the other hand, are more rooted, more place-based, and according to Goodhart, traditional in orientation and worldview.

 

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