Singapore's CMIO race model an administrative tool to manage policies: IPS panel

SINGAPORE - Singapore's Chinese-Malay-Indian-Others system of ethnic classification is essentially an administrative tool for the Government to manage policies around race, which remains a key element of people's identity.

Dr Kalpana Vignehsa, a research fellow at the think-tank, had asked from the floor if Singapore was ready to move past labels such as CMIO"to accept that in real life, identities are a lot more porous and fluid". She added that the Government was both cautious and fearful about people drawing differences along ethnic lines and the societal problems that could arise, such as the racial riots in Singapore's history.

The EIP, for example, will become less and less relevant as people naturally choose to live in diverse neighbourhoods, she added.

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