yes, I realised that, but what I thought was interesting was the marked difference in the way singapore remembers her experience of war. admittedly, there is a difference in the experience itself- almost nothing at all of WW1, and occupation by the japanese in WW2- but the contrast between charity and well, what happens here, is quite stark. singapore takes Unsentimentality to new heights.
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Date: 2005-11-04 12:14 am (UTC)