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Cultural Map of the World - Including Singapore

Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World - including Singapore
Singapore Cultural Values
Traditional - Secular-Rational Values Vs Survival - Self Expression Values

This is based on the World Value Survey which included Singapore but the relevant info was not depicted in their published values map. I found the Singapore results here.

Singapore:
Traditional/Se-cular-rational Values: -.06
Survival/Self-expression Values: -0.16

This puts it very close to Vietnam on the map.

Demand for Mud Burgers is up

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In Haiti, where three-quarters of the population earns less than $2 a day and one in five children is chronically malnourished, the one business booming amid all the gloom is the selling of patties made of mud, oil and sugar, typically consumed only by the most destitute.

“It’s salty and it has butter and you don’t know you’re eating dirt,” said Olwich Louis Jeune, 24, who has taken to eating them more often in recent months. “It makes your stomach quiet down.”

Singapore fines TV station for gay show

From The Raw Story
Reprinted for posterity…

Apr 24, 2008 06:43 EST

A Singapore television station has been fined for airing a show that depicted a gay couple and their baby in a way that “promotes a gay lifestyle,” the city-state’s media regulator said Thursday.

The Media Development Authority fined MediaCorp TV Channel 5 $11,000, it said in a statement on its Web site.

The station aired an episode of a home and decor series called “Find and Design” that featured a gay couple wanting to transform their game room into a new nursery for their adopted baby.

The authority said the episode contained scenes of the gay couple with their baby and the presenter’s congratulations and acknowledgment of them as a family unit “in a way which normalizes their gay lifestyle and unconventional family setup.”

The episode was in breach of rules on free-to-air television programming, which disallows content that promotes, justifies or glamorizes gay lifestyles, the statement said.

Earlier this month, the authority fined a Singapore cable television operator, StarHub Cable Vision $7,200 for airing a commercial that showed two lesbians kissing.

Under Singapore law, gay sex is deemed “an act of gross indecency,” punishable by a maximum of two years in jail.

Despite the official ban on gay sex, there have been few prosecutions. Authorities have banned gay festivals and censored gay films, saying homosexuality should not be advocated as a lifestyle choice.

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