Next Monday is Racial Harmony Day.
My school is encouraging us to come in our traditional costumes.
I am planning to come dressed in a 中国少数民族 (China's minority tribe's) tradition costume.
But beyond the superficial act of admiring the diversity of the culture in Singapore, I am reminded that we need to appreciate the journey that we have gone through as a nation to achieve the racial harmony and integration we are enjoying now.
Yet this social fabric can be easily torn. Racial tensions can be stirred up in an instant, as we can see from our neighbouring countries.
I recall a video that I saw in NIE.
I tried my luck and actually found it on the internet.
It's a good video to remind us not to take each other's identity for granted, and to take the pledge we say every morning in assembly, seriously.
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