Singapore's Bicentennial: Our colonial conundrum

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For qns about the credibility of history....compare with Japanese whitewashing of their atrocities committed during WWII....Note the reasons why Singapore chooses to whitewash Raffles and even celebrate our oppressor.....

Note the opening BANG, as well as how the closing BANG echoes it...

But what about Raffles himself? Before he so graciously "found" us, Raffles led a violent assault in 1812 on Yogyakarta, killing civilians, looting and humiliating its local rulers. Yet here, he is today associated ubiquitously and proudly with excellence. The financial district is called Raffles Place. A top school and prestigious hospital are named after him. More disturbingly, we've taken to aping colonialism's legacy of excess and avarice in our consumer culture.

Few nations would fondly remember, much less glorify a former oppressor. We must suffer from some kind of Stockholm syndrome, a psychological condition where captives grow to feel affection for their captor and even rationalise their violence.