Racial Harmony day, a day to remember the racial riots in 1964, a year before Singapore's independence. Racial Harmony means that the four or more different ethnic groups, Chinese, Malay, Indian, etc, living together as one in peace and harmony without the need of racial disputes and riots.
So far in school, the activities that have been going on this Racial Harmony week are the recital of the national pledge in Chinee, Malay and english on altenate days. Since there might be some difficulty in reciting the pledge in a different language, a little piece of paper with the pledge written on it in Malay and chinese were given to the students a week before the Racial Harmony week. On Thursday, the students are allowed to wear their different ethnic costumes to school and the class with the most number of pupils wearing the costumes get a prize. On that same day, the Sec 2s would be holding a Charity Bazaar to raise funds for the Community chest.
Overall, I think that Racial Harmony means alot because without it, and at the same time having many different races living together, would have a disastrous effect. Chaos, riots, etc, would happen over racist comments and such. So Racial Harmony is important to maintain the peace in a multi racial community.
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