Parliament: Sylvia Lim calls for open review of race-based policies

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various race-based policies, including the Chinese, Malay, Indian and Other (CMIO) model of ethnic classification as well as the Housing Board's Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP)

move Singapore along in its "journey towards being a race-blind society"

despite the Government defending the CMIO model as necessary to safeguard minority rights, she said the concept of minority rights itself is problematic. So, it would be better to discuss citizenship rights

Furthermore, with more and more inter-ethnic marriages, where the bride and groom are themselves of mixed parentage, I wonder how the CMIO classifications can withstand the test of time

The four race-based self-help groups, namely the Chinese Development Assistance Council, Singapore Indian Development Association, Mendaki and the Eurasian Association, are informed by the CMIO model

Since 1988, Singapore's group representation constituency system has required political parties to field candidates from designated minority communities, and more recent changes have been made to the elected presidency to introduce an ethnic requirement

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