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dc.titleCAN THE CMIO MODEL IN SINGAPORE EVER BE ABOLISHED? INVESTIGATING INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS ON ETHNICITY IN SINGAPORE
dc.contributor.authorLEONARD SIM JUN JIE
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-01T02:20:18Z
dc.date.available2023-06-01T02:20:18Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-31
dc.identifier.citationLEONARD SIM JUN JIE (2022-03-31). CAN THE CMIO MODEL IN SINGAPORE EVER BE ABOLISHED? INVESTIGATING INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS ON ETHNICITY IN SINGAPORE. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/241502
dc.description.abstractThe aim of the paper is to investigate institutional effects on ethnicity in Singapore. Based on Kanchan Chandra’s theories on ethnic politics, the paper aims to study the effects of Singapore’s policies on the salience of ethnic identities in Singaporeans. The multiculturalism of Singapore is a socially engineered construct through several race-based policies that affect Singaporeans in many intimate ways, including housing and access to resources. However, within the social media landscape, it is observable that certain incidents and events surrounding Singapore’s racial and religious harmony have raised several discussion points and peaks in 2021. By employing the use of social media scraping, this study aims to analyse the trends of discussions of these issues and understand the salience of the ethnic identities of Singaporeans. Comparing to average levels of discussions of race-based issues and topics, the study hypothesizes that the increase in discussion of race-based topics, with specific references and mentions of certain racial groups or communities, is linked to the increase in discussion of or occurrence of racially motivated incidents or speeches. The increased mentions and discussions involving racial groups or communities in social discourse is theorized to be an increased salience of ethnic identity vis-a-vis a common or national identity. Therefore, this study will use Python to develop a programme that will collect data from social media websites and forums such as Reddit and analyse conversational topics and content to find out the frequency of discussion of racial or ethnic identities. The data will then be compared and viewed against the timeline of events and incidents that happened in 2021 and see whether there is a correlation between the two. A higher degree of correlation would suggest that there is a higher salience of ethnic identity as compared to a common, or national identity
dc.typeThesis
dc.contributor.departmentPOLITICAL SCIENCE
dc.contributor.supervisorJAMIE DAVIDSON
dc.description.degreeBachelor's
dc.description.degreeconferredBachelor of Social Sciences (Honours)
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