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But Singapore’s paternalism has not gone away. Earlier this month the government announced that only ethnic Malays will be permitted to run for president next year. The constitution will be amended to mandate that presidential elections be reserved for members of a certain ethnic group if nobody from that group has served as president for the past five terms.

Living in China, this article was very enlightening.
China today is extraordinarily homogenous. It sustains that by remaining almost entirely closed to new entrants except by birth. Unless someone is the child of a Chinese national, no matter how long they live there, how much money they make or tax they pay, it is virtually impossible to become a citizen. Someone who marries a Chinese person can theoretically gain citizenship; in practice few do. As a result, the most populous nation on Earth has only 1,448 naturalised Chinese in total, according to the 2010 census. Even Japan, better known for hostility to immigration, naturalises around 10,000 new citizens each year; in America the figure is some 700,000 (see chart).

Bumped into this while trying to untangle myself the knot of the conflicts going on in Syria. Complicated but this video gives it a very good shot.

Humans deem themselves superior to animals. What about AI and robots?  


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