Western Europeans (here's looking at you, GB) projected their class-conscious insecurities as well as inferiority complex on others upon "discovering new territories".
Many years later, after crossing the Atlantic, this mental dis-ease became perhaps even more barbaric and combustible, culminating in the Civil War in the US.
Does light shed any truth on darkness currently in the US?
The world today (thanks to social media and the Internet) can finally be the judge.
Keep in mind all the civil rights unrest/struggle in the US dating back to Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation as well as all the recent protests condemning disproportionate police brutality on blacks.
Must be due to the constant and insidious brainwashing orchestrated by the TV stations and big business in Thailand, largely controlled by the fair-skinned Chinese-Thais.
Moderators, I must say that you are clever to put "Singapore" in close proximity to "more educated governments" in your writing. You slick alligators.
Even if it was wishful thinking on your part, you would still be impressing every reader here nonetheless.
When a government builds its largest national infrastructure at an airport and tries to rope in its own citizens to spend an entire day of fun and fam there, I have no choice but to be DEEPLY IMPRESSED.