Cultural Dimensions of Expatriate Life in Singapore

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Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. Amazon Rapids Fun stories for kids on the go. In , when the British arrived, it was little more than a swamp.

But it was a strategically located swamp, a key point on the trade route between India and China, and Singapore soon became a thriving trading port. As business boomed, the city grew and its population was swelled by a huge influx of immigrants from all over Asia. But how is life for expats?

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What are the pros and cons? It is ethnically and religiously diverse and a key base for many major multinational corporations, with the result that there are many expat opportunities here. The city is almost designed with the expat in mind. However, this wealth is not evenly spread , and this creates another dimension of the city — its inequality.

From the ivory tower of the expat community, this may not impact on your life, but be aware that the prosperity of the country does not mean Singapore has no poverty. If your move to Singapore is your first time to the Southeast Asian region, it is a near-perfect hub for onward travel.

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Its heritage as a trading post means there are excellent travel connections with regular and reasonably short flights to India, China, Thailand and Australia — which is of particular benefit to adventurous-minded expats from Europe or the US. Travel within Singapore is also a joy. The public transport infrastructure is modern, well-funded and well-maintained.

This means that the softer aspects of culture such as leveling with others, consensus, sympathy for the underdog are valued and encouraged. Being modest and humble is seen as very important; thus showing that one knows it all and therefore has come to educate the counterparts is not liked.

Conflicts are avoided in private and work life and consensus at the end is important. During discussions being cautious is important, not to being too persistent. Uncertainty Avoidance The dimension Uncertainty Avoidance has to do with the way that a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known: This ambiguity brings with it anxiety and different cultures have learnt to deal with this anxiety in different ways.

The extent to which the members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous or unknown situations and have created beliefs and institutions that try to avoid these is reflected in the score on Uncertainty Avoidance. Singapore scores 8 on this dimension and thus scores very low on this dimension.

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In Singapore people abide to many rules not because they have need for structure but because of high PDI. Long Term Orientation This dimension describes how every society has to maintain some links with its own past while dealing with the challenges of the present and future , and societies prioritise these two existential goals differently. Those with a culture which scores high, on the other hand, take a more pragmatic approach: Singapore scores 72, this high score is refelcted in Singapore which shows cultural qualities supporting long-term investment such as perseverance, sustained efforts, slow results, thrift; being sparse with resources, ordering relationship by status and having a sense of shame see also again the Confucian teaching.

Singapore has also become one of the five dragons with an immense economic success. Whereas westerners have been looking for the truth, the Singaporeans are emphasizing virtue and the way you do things. They are always keeping their options open as there are many ways to skin a cat.

Westerners believe that if A is right, B must be wrong, whereas people from East and Southeast Asian countries see that both A and B combined produce something superior. This mindset allows for a more pragmatic approach to business. Indulgence One challenge that confronts humanity, now and in the past, is the degree to which small children are socialized.

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