Saturday, November 1, 2008

Singapore -- First World Social Graces?

Hi everyone,

Thank you for your responses to the last poll on the U.S. Presidential Elections. Personally, I felt the responses were both interesting and informed.

As such, we would like to share them with everyone HERE. Names have been removed from comments, and the comments expressed therein are the views of the authors themselves.

This week, we're conducting a customer satisfaction survey! But we don't want to ask about Singaporean service standards. Rather, we're interested in how you rate the social graces of Singaporeans!

That's right -- social graces. Defined as "the collective skill for dealing with people and society". "Manners". "Etiquette".

It's not a new topic. But that's just an indirect way of saying that it's a recurring problem, one that was most recently highlighted by PM Lee during his 2008 National Day Rally.

How would you rate the social graces of our generation of youths? What about those of society at large? Is Singapore truly a gracious society? Have courtesy campaigns and kindness movements had any effect on the behavior of Singaporeans at all?

Tell YouthInk what you think! Access our poll HERE.

We look forward to hearing from you. Meanwhile, keep reading YouthInk every monday!

As always, here're some cartoons we managed to scour off the internet that are semi-related to our topic at hand! Cheers.



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