Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's Acknowledgements -- Section I: Our Inclusive Society: Going Forward -- Welcome Remarks Ong Keng Yong -- Keynote Address Wong Kan Seng -- Introduction -- Part 1: Global City, Endearing Home -- Part 2: Our Way Forward -- Preserve what is unique about Singapore -- Ensuring that growth and change benefits Singaporeans -- Being prepared to make adjustments -- Conclusion -- Section II: Global City -- Chapter 1 Between Nation-State and Global City Derek da Cunha -- BETWEEN NATION NATION-STATE AND GLOBAL CITY -- MONACO OF THE EAST -- THE BET ON CASINOS -- A DIVERSIFIED ECONOMY -- OPINIONS AND PRACTICES IN A GLOBAL CITY -- Chapter 2 Singapore as a Global City: A Balancing Act Sylvia Lim -- HOW FAR CAN SINGAPORE BE A HUB FOR CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IF IT MAINTAINS AN ILLIBERAL CLIMATE? -- THERE HAS BEEN A PALPABLE SENSE OF LOSS OF IDENTITY AND NATION IN VIEW OF THE RAPID PACE OF CHANGE IN THE LAST FEW YEARS -- WE CAN RECLAIM SOME IDENTITY AND SOCIAL COHESION THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND MUTUAL SUPPORT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 I …Singaporean T. Sasitharan -- Discussant Notes Ong Ye Kung -- Section III: Caring Community -- Chapter 4 We Do Care … Or Do We? T. Raja Segar -- DONATION STATISTICS -- VOLUNTEERISM -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 Including The Disadvantaged in a Meritocratic Singapore: Past, Present and Future Denise Phua -- INTRODUCTION -- ON ENABLING AND INCL INCLUDING THE DISABLED -- ON INCLUDING THE POOR AND LOW-SKILLED -- PRINCIPLES UNDERPINNING SINGAPORE'S SOCIAL SAFETY NET -- PRINCIPLE ONE: SELF-RELIANCE, WORK BEFORE WELFARE -- PRINCIPLE TWO: FAMILY - THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENCE -- PRINCIPLE THREE: MANY HELPING HANDS -- WHOSE JOB IS IT ANYWAY TO CREATE A CARING SOCIETY? -- GOVERNMENT -- ADVOCATES -- INDIVIDUALS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 6 Theatre is a Language Kok Heng Luen.

THE CARING COMMUNITY -- INVENTION OF THEATRE AS DEFINED BY AUGUSTO BOAL -- THE EMPOWERED SPECTATOR: SPECT-ACTOR -- COMMUNITY MAKING THEATRE -- THEATRE IS A LANGUAGE -- Discussant Notes T. K. Udairam -- Section IV: Singapore Spirit -- Chapter 7 The Singapore Spirit: An Immigrant Perspective Ori Sasson -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE SINGAPOREAN? -- Complaining, Eating, and Shopping -- Paradox One: Hard Work versus Lucky Draw -- Parado Paradox Two: Conformity versus Desire to Excel -- Paradox Three: Scared : to Lose, but not the Mobile Phone -- Paradox Four: World Class… or Are We? -- THE SINGAPORE SPIRIT -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 8 The Singapore Spirit is Not a Pontianak! What is it? Woffles Wu -- Chapter 9 Localism versus Globalism Janadas Devan -- Proposition One: Socially meaningful life exists locally, in a particular time and place, or it does not exist at all. -- Proposition Two: The global economy is a fact completely at variance with the first proposition. -- Discussant Notes Lai Ah Eng -- INTRODUCTION -- SOME COMMENTS ON SPEAKERS' POINTS -- KIASU-ISM: A NEGATIVE ASPECT OF THE SINGAPORE SPIRIT -- POSITIVE ASPECT ASPECTS OF THE SINGAPORE SPIRIT -- MIGRATION AND THE LOCAL-GLOBAL CHALLENGE TO THE SINGAPORE SPIRIT -- MORE ON THE SINGAPORE SPIRIT -- Multi-culturalism -- Local community -- Civil society -- Inequality, class reproduction, meritocracy, competition and compassion -- CONCLUSION -- Section V: Special Session -- Chapter 10 People's Association: Co-Creating a Great Home and Creating Community Lim Boon Heng -- Chapter 11 Mercy Relief: Adding Gloss to the Gifted Dot Hassan Ahmad -- ENVIED BUT LOVE LOVED? -- NEIGHBOURS' VIEWS AND THE REALITY -- SINGAPORE SPIRIT EXTENDS ACROSS THE REGION -- SPIRIT AND PHILOSOPHY OF REGIONAL SERVICE -- MOVING FORWARD -- CONCLUSION -- Section VI: Conclusion.

Chapter 12 Closing Remarks: Living and Breathing 'Singapore' Gillian Koh -- About the Contributors -- About the Institute of Policy Studies.