Multi-racial, Multi-cultural, Single goal

Have you ever seen a Hindu Temple built beside a Chinese temple, or found Malay or Indian uncles and aunties practicing Tai-Chi with Chinese senior citizen?

Here in Singapore waterloo street, Sri Krishnan Hindu Temple neighbour to the Goddess of Mercy Chinese temple. You would be amazed by the number of Chinese worshippers while praying in the Chinese temple, also go over to the Indian temple and offer joss sticks and incense to Hindu gods. You can see that the Hindu welcome the Chinese worshippers by setting up an offerings table just in front of the Indian temple to receive their offering. As a gesture of goodwill, it is also not hard to find Indian Hindu actually joining the Chinese outside in using joss sticks to pray.

Clearly, the Chinese worshippers had no problems praying to Hindu gods nor the Indian Hindus had qualms worshipping Chinese style with joss sticks and incense.
In the Neighbourhood Park all around Singapore, it is not hard to find the mixed races of Malays, Indians and Chinese get together in the morning to learn Chinese Tai-Chi. This gathering is not affected by the difference in religion, age or gender, nor is it affected by religious head gear like tudang or turban.

With all these real life examples, Singapore remain as one of the most successful country that saw different ethnic groups to keep their culture, language and customs while at the same time be totally accepting of others.