After the crown disease epidemic, Sino -US economic and trade disputes, and the Russian and Ukraine War, the planning ideas and resource deployment of many countries and enterprises have undergone fundamental changes.As an export -oriented economy, Singapore is no exception. In the context of interference increasingly, it has also thought about how to ensure the normal operation of the economy and not interrupt food.
In this year's fiscal budget statement, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Huang Xuncai talked about the importance of establishing a tough Singapore.He said that the establishment of redundant measures can better buffer the impact of crisis, but "we have to understand that building toughness is costly."
This includes imported goods when imported goods, and no longer purchase goods from the lowest price, so the overall price becomes expensive.In addition, Singapore must establish larger material reserves for from time to time. These necessities occupy more land space, and maintenance costs will increase.
These idle resources are usually useless, and even seem to be excessive and waste. Every year, resources must be allocated to maintain.But once major changes occur, these idle materials reserves and industrial chain redundancy measures can really play a role. In the most important point, we remind us that the so -called waste was valuable.
When accumulating reserves at the time of Taiping, there is a mechanism of pressure -resistant buffer when encountering crisis, which is the key to establishing toughness.The same reason is also suitable for our lives: language and culture.
Many years ago, people in all corners of the world gathered by people with different cultures and fucking different accents gathered on this land, so that Singapore had very rich language and cultural ingredients in the early days.After decades of development, Singapore's working language, broadcasting and notice boards, as well as the exhibition boards of major attractions and museums, gradually become English as the main language.
The reasons behind this are not difficult to understand. There are considerations of social governance and promoting communication between groups, and there is also a need to connect with international standards.Today, many Chinese people know some English. If you still need to add a language that you can only understand, you need to arrange translation, hire more people to provide different languages, and make more space, install more installation, install moreNotice of different languages.This overlapping seems superfluous, and the economic benefits are not high, but the "minimalist aesthetics" of the Yingwen language only makes us lose the opportunity to show and strengthen cultural richness.
As the previous foreign minister Yang Rongwen once said in 2019, a single language environment will deliberately reduce and simplify our cultural genes: "We decided to reduce cultural genes and become the same day, which is Singapore's change.It is very boring. "
Take children's books as an example.Cultivate children's understanding of local culture and understand what they often come into contact with their daily lives.However, the local market size is small, the cost is high, and the amount of printing is small. It is very difficult for publishers to use localized early education content.These readers are much more expensive than other imported books. Even if consumers are interested, they will think about the price.In the case of similar functions, people simply selectively selectively cost -effective foreign readings, and "Dex" became "taxi" and "tomato" became "tomato".
English exhibition boards and mother tongue booths, overseas books and localized books, have high superficial things, the subtle difference in this one is not easy to detect. If it cannot bring substantial benefits and results in a certain period of time, it is even more difficult to convince people to invest in investmentThe cost is not a waste.
The redundancy is just a means from beginning to end. The purpose is to go to risks and build toughness to ensure that we think we think more important.In terms of economic construction, we are willing to spend money to reserve more resources to cope with the unpredictable future.What are the costs we have to pay in language and culture?What is the risk to go?What do you need to reserve and guarantee?As long as we look back at our history and external environment, it is not difficult to ignore a little eyebrows.
