Why is it important to foster social cohesion?

It is important to foster social cohesion so that our country can maintain racial and religious harmony among us singaporeans as our country is a multi-ethnic country. By maintaining racial and religious harmony in our country , is also to prevent division among our people in the society. Security and peace is one of the benefits for living in Singapore together with peace and harmony. Every singaporean feels safe with one another as we respect each other culture and religion.Therefore, various policies and programmes have been placed to ensure that everyone living in Singapore, regardless of race or religion, enjoy a harmonious living environment that is clean,safe and peaceful.

By Jahan

Explore other ways to foster social cohesion in Singapore?

The government can provide more opportunities or activities for different races to have more interaction with each other. For most Singaporeans there has been no significant improvement in economic conditions, and many face deepening structural poverty.

This is poverty caused by changes in the structure of society such as the emergence of the knowledge society, which builds on education and lifelong learning for the integration of all members into social and economic life.

Retrenchments continue, many businesses either continue to post losses, down size or relocate elsewhere, job prospects look bleak, the cost of living and doing business in Singapore remain relatively high, our young people joining the work force for the first time find it harder to secure jobs and start at much lower salaries. More families and individuals are unable to pay their mortgages, utilities and other bills.

In light of these happenings, there is a need to put forward different policy options through ideas and solutions derived from Singaporeans and provide those essential checks and balances and non-elitist practices to ensure social cohesion and to repossess ownership over the policy making process.

One way to achieve this is by initiating wide public consultation to find out what Singaporeans want and how they would like to rectify the problem. However, to foster social cohesion mainly depends on us. If we could get along with everybody, this will make Singapore a peaceful and harmony country.

By Shazana