I don’t think it will have a big impact on our GRCs or ethnic integration policies because the majority of the population will still be the major racial groups – the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians. And these are the other racial or ethnic groups who, in total numbers, will remain small for some time to come, and maybe for a very long time to come.

Lee Hsien Loong, on double-barrelled race listing


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One Response to “Double-barrelled but no big impact”

  1. whoincharge 15 January 2010

    and the point is?
    my prince your highness our UNELECTED prime minister?
    your father setup the GRC is to represent the minorities
    than he tell us that birth certificates must also have different registration clerks
    you know tamil clerk for indian/bangala babies
    chinese clerk for china chinese babies
    russian clerk for angmor babies
    our highness..don’t sink too LOUD or too loong..we all know your braincells still hav cancer remains..
    yeah yeah we also know your papa still blow your little wilLEE when you peepee
    please be kind enough to tell us what we realLEE don’t know?