Environmental and pollution could ruin one of the philippines tourism hot spots. Singapore people are in mourning for their countrys founding father of mooe mooe died at age 91 and credited with transforming the island into a Global Financial center and criticized for being undemocratic and authoritarian as Nicole Johnston reports. Reporter without lee kuan yew it may not be what it existed and he was a chinese singapore saw his home land occupied first by the british then japanese and after training as a lawyer in britain he was Prime Minister in 1959 a post he would hold for 39 years and with a ruthless style of politics singapore was independent against its will kicked out of malaysia in 1965 against a back drop of racial tension and a fearful lee kuan yew contemplated a bleak future. With geography and economics and ties of kinship. Reporter sentiment gave way to pragmatism and he was unflinching to bring prosperity to his country and under leadship it was transformed from an islan
Its a really great to see you and its really great to be here on the show with you today. I know we have lots to talk about a lot of really really interesting things to talk about and were gonna be talking about your book majority minority. In fact, i wonder if we could first talk a little bit about um why you decided to do this book and with such a title something. Thats kind of been a little bit of a buzzword in washington in the last 10 years or so. So what drove you to do the book, you know, mark. Thanks so much. Our, you know interviewing me so many pieces of my earlier work feels like they came together with this work on you know here to four. Ive studied muslim politics the politics of a lot of minority out groups the politics of white workingclass people and nativism and backlash to diversity and minorities and nativism and i studied immigration policies both here in the United States and abroad across 30 different countries, and i think that overshadowing all of these differen
Many pieces of my earlier work feels like they came together with this work on you know here to four. Ive studied muslim politics the politics of a lot of minority out groups the politics of white workingclass people and nativism and backlash to diversity and minorities and nativism and i studied immigration policies both here in the United States and abroad across 30 different countries, and i think that overshadowing all of these different topics overshadowing our politics Public Opinion and our policy has been the specter. Of the majority minority milestone the moment when Minority Groups become become the majority group, they outnumber the original or native based ethnic or religious minority. And so i think that you know in acknowledging that shadow cast over all of our politics. I want to kind of take it on, you know head on and for for viewers. Im not quite sure everybody might know what majority minority is referring to but the nation has been under a lot of demographic change.
Politics of a lot of minority out groups the politics of white workingclass people and nativism and backlash to diversity and minorities and nativism and i studied immigration policies both here in the United States and abroad across 30 different countries, and i think that overshadowing all of these different topics overshadowing our politics Public Opinion and our policy has been the specter. Of the majority minority milestone the moment when Minority Groups become become the majority group, they outnumber the original or native based ethnic or religious minority. And so i think that you know in acknowledging that shadow cast over all of our politics. I want to kind of take it on, you know head on and for for viewers. Im not quite sure everybody might know what majority minority is referring to but the nation has been under a lot of demographic change. I wonder if you can tell us a little bit about the story of where we are today, and were the nation may be going in terms of its demo
Interesting things to talk about and were gonna be talking about your book majority minority. In fact, i wonder if we could first talk a little bit about um why you decided to do this book and with such a title something. Thats kind of been a little bit of a buzzword in washington in the last 10 years or so. So what drove you to do the book, you know, mark. Thanks so much. Our, you know interviewing me so many pieces of my earlier work feels like they came together with this work on you know here to four. Ive studied muslim politics the politics of a lot of minority out groups the politics of white workingclass people and nativism and backlash to diversity and minorities and nativism and i studied immigration policies both here in the United States and abroad across 30 different countries, and i think that overshadowing all of these different topics overshadowing our politics Public Opinion and our policy has been the specter. Of the majority minority milestone the moment when Minority