What are you proudest of about your country?

A question from a 12-year-old visitor from Norway sparks some thoughts about social compacts in a year of elections around the world.

People want a country they can be proud of and which is moving towards a future that they feel a part of, says the writer. ST PHOTO: GIN TAY
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After a coma-inducing dinner of deep-fried soon hock fish, claypot pork liver and Yangzhou fried rice, it was not a question that I was prepared for – and not from a 12-year-old boy.

“What are Singaporeans proudest of about their country?” he asked, as I was driving home.

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