Racial Harmony Day

On Racial Harmony Day, people in Singapore reflect on the value of building harmony and understanding among the citizens of the nation while celebrating ...

The commitment serves as a reminder for the people of Singapore to set aside their differences and celebrate the country's heritage to collaborate for a thriving Singapore. The uniqueness and significance of Racial Harmony Day are discussed with the children to summarise the nation's history. Racial Harmony Day, which can last up to a week, is marked by a variety of intercultural events organised by schools for children. The movie also stars Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling and Jessica... On this day, Singaporeans reflect on the value of building harmony and understanding among all populations in the country while celebrating their diverse and cross-cultural character. Racial Harmony Day is more than just another school event. New Delhi: Racial Harmony Day is observed every year on July 21 in Singapore. The day is observed to commemorate the communal riots of 1964 and to teach students the importance of maintaining racial and religious harmony in Singapore's multicultural and multi-ethnic society.

When casual racism permeates society, should we still celebrate Racial Harmony Day? How can we take the ideals of multiculturalism beyond just paying lip ...

He said in the post: “Racial harmony has been and remains a work in progress… It could be the family that you have, the friends that you find. To them, it’s a chance to have a bit of fashion fun and learn about other cultures. I’m glad that in Singapore, we don’t have to worry too much about accusations of cultural appropriation, as some in other countries do. we would be fooling ourselves if we believed that racial and religious harmony were the natural order of things. Performers strutted their stuff and the crowd, after two years of Covid, lapped it up. “Now in a positive way, social media has helped to create greater awareness of racism here. Whether online or offline, we must hold ourselves to higher standards, and tackle racism wherever it exists in our society.” Not to glare at a person or to call them out, but to gently correct, with a tinge of humour, and to recount as an amusing anecdote later! Sometimes, I Google it myself (fact-checking multiple sources, of course!). There are also free public forums such as The Whitehatters’ AMA (ask me anything) series that bring leaders together from different faiths in a safe space to raise unspoken issues. “The natural instincts of humans are to look out for people who are most like us, and to keep a distance from others… In the speech, he said: “Race is never an easy issue for any society in the world, especially highly diverse ones like ours.