In an interview held ahead of his swearing-in as Singapore’s prime minister on May 15, Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong says many young people are looking for meaning, fulfilment and purpose and they are choosing to go beyond the 5Cs, once seen as the Singaporean dream.
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00:00 I am confident and hopeful because the sense of Singaporean identity is growing
00:05 amongst younger Singaporeans I engage. They are confident about who they are
00:10 and proud to be Singaporeans. And you saw that certainly during the last few years when we had
00:19 to tackle COVID together as well. Young Singaporeans responding to the very difficult restrictions
00:27 that we had to impose but also doing their part to help their fellow Singaporeans.
00:31 I'm also hopeful because I see many young Singaporeans now, nowadays, certainly much
00:40 more well informed than I was when I was their age. They read a lot more widely, they get access
00:46 to all sorts of information and they are clearer about what they would like to do in life. But I
00:52 also, from the conversations, get a sense that they would like to contribute not just
00:59 to their own careers but they would like to contribute to something larger than themselves,
01:05 to a larger purpose. And I think that's very meaningful. That's a good and positive sign.
01:11 Many of them say they want to go beyond the five Cs, the five Cs of the Singapore dream of the
01:16 past and they would like to achieve something larger than themselves. When I said that or when
01:24 we talked about that in the Forward Singapore report, there were critics who said, "Oh,
01:27 that means that young Singaporeans cannot aspire towards the Singapore dream of five Cs anymore."
01:33 But that's not the case. I think that's misconstrued and that's completely inaccurate.
01:40 I mean, young Singaporeans want to have a good life but they want not just the good life to
01:47 be measured by narrow metrics based on material success. They are looking for meaning, they are
01:55 looking for fulfilment, they are looking for purpose. I think these are very noble aspirations
02:00 and certainly we will do our part in the government to support these aspirations and
02:05 and help young Singaporeans to realise that.
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