Charlotte Ashton and her husband moved to Singapore, a friend posted a link on her Facebook wall to a survey revealing Singaporeans to be one of the least positive people in the world. “Good luck in misery city!” he said. Ashton’s experience in Singapore has now gone on to be a viral op-ed on the BBC’s website entitled Does Singapore deserve its miserable tag?. Like any other country or city, Singapore cannot be simply described in labels that gloss over the diversity of experiences present on this small island. These labels, and the anecdotal accounts that feed into them, rarely offer any real insight into the complexity of our lives, nor do they help us better understand the issues that we face here.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 07:22:41 +0000