November 2009
1 post
The District 9 Antithesis
The class divide in Singapore is readily apparent to anyone who actually bothers to look for it (and one doesn’t have to even look very hard). While i would not venture so far as to say that this divide is one that akin to a large chasm, it is there, and it is here to stay.There is a startling dissonance between what the state portrays of Singapore as a glitzy (kitschy at times, even) island...