Reddit reviews From Third World to First: The Singapore Story - 1965-2000
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When Singapore became independent , it had almost the same problems as us , poverty , hostile neighbors , illiteracy , no civic sense.
You should read Lee Kuan Yew 's "From Third world to First" which accounts Singapore's journey under him. Excellent Book.
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story.
Lee Kuan-yew recounts how he took a malarial swamp with no natural resources, inhabited by illiterate fisherman and dockworkers, divided along ethnic and religious lines, & poor as most African nations, and turned it into a prosperous city-state with a GDP per capita higher than most Western nations in just one generation.
Take your first world problems elsewhere, peon
MM Lee says we are first world what
LKY lovers, is this book worth it?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060197765/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I1L7KPUARWJOY8&colid=1ZCERWAQVKJFG
Just a few off the top of my head:
The book by Allison is a rather terrible representation of PM Lee Kuan Yew. Most of the quotations from Lee are from speeches he made or from recorded interviews, while very few are from Lee's writing,
Some of the quotes are also edited out of context. For example, LKY have talked about the problem of religious fundamentalism, in Singapore context, which were (external) Muslim radicalization and christian evangelism. The latter was an headache for our multicultural and multiracial society when fundamental Christians tries to convert our Muslim Malay. That got turned into a discussion on just Muslim radicalization, with the latter dropped.
The book is edited to be more palatable to a western audience. It can be a good primer, but really it contains little about the thought of the man itself. I would suggest reading the writing by the man himself.
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