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Singapore’s national identity excludes those who don’t look like a ‘regular family’

By Pavan Mano, Lecturer in Global Cultures, King's College London

Nationalism usually works on the basis that a nation should imagine itself as a “we”, with a common identity, history and culture. But it doesn’t always clearly say who the “we” are. Instead, it often works by saying who doesn’t belong – frequently by characterising these people in racialised ways.

Singapore is an interesting case study. Since independence in 1965, the small city-state has explicitly committed…

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