Some years back, a Middle East country sent some of its students to study in Singapore, thinking that these students, coming from a new generation, could be changed. That did not happen. They were not here to absorb our culture or our work ethic. They were gallivanting. Singapore was a strange place to them. They thought to themselves, “Let’s have a good time and then go back.” Why should you work when you have such immense wealth lying right beneath your feet?
