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Multiracialism and Meritocracy: Singapore's Approach to Race and Inequality
Authors:R. Quinn Moore
Affiliation:1. Head of Strategy and Market Development, Fixed Income Investment Group, FIIG , GPO Box 2342, Sydney, NSW, Australia , 2001;2. Director of Research, Federal Court of Australia, Research Directorate , Level 16, Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney, NSW, Australia , 2000
Abstract:This paper characterizes Singapore's efforts to tackle the problem of persistent racial inequality in terms of the notion of fair meritocracy. Singapore's race policy attempts to level the playing field through its unique race-based self-help organizations and a comprehensive, racially integrated, public housing program. Individuals are then sorted by the ostensibly objective mechanism of a standardized test based educational system. The social and economic implications of this policy are examined and, using summary data from the 1980 and 1990 censuses, the extent to which Singapore has been successful in creating a fair multiracial meritocracy is assessed.
Keywords:Inequality  Meritocracy  Race  Singapore  Education  Housing
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