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Hello everyone,my topic is Singapore in Asia.I  introduced the four important elements in Singapore of the film,ILO ILO.Before introducing the Singapore's culture,I want to describe the population in Singapore. The three main ethnic groups are Chinese 74％,Malay 13％ and Indian 9％.So, In fact, we are familiar with Singapore's image is shaped by Chinese.

  First part- Asian Finanical Crisis.The background of the film is in late 90s.It encoutered the Asian Finanical Crisis.The main character家樂's father also lost job because of it.In that time, Thailand triggered off the financial crisis,and then affected other Asian countries.- Among ,the worst affected country is Indonesia.As a result,it caused currencies and the stock market of the Southeast Asian crumbling.In the movie,we can feel heavy social pressure in that time,too.

  Second part-education system-not only in school,but also in family.ILO ILO in Chinese is爸媽不在家.But,in fact,家樂's parents are often at home.I thought the Chinese name is spiritual,because even they are at home,they do not really care about him.It is very similar with other Asian countries.Most parents consider that the biggest responsibility of education should belong to school and make sure their homework are good enough.However,the right concept is that parents should pay more concern to their children.Furthermore,we can see the corporal punishment plot in ILO ILO.Now ,it is almost banned,but factory-style education still exists-it means that school just like a factory and students are products.Factory want every single product to be the same or they will be thrown away.It limits the multiple development of students.

  Third part-the situation of foregin workers.In Singapore, 38% of employed population are forign workers. Why is there such a high proportion？Because the Singapore's government encourages the employment of foreign talents to Singapore . They divided work permits into different levels,the highest permit is Employment Pass-hold by people who have professional skills and higher education.The lowest permit is Work Permit-hold by people like Teresa,foregin domestic workers.In highly developed countries, low-skilled foreign workers are responsible for labor work,but their bitterness often be ignored.In this movie,the director use closer perspective to describe domestic worker,Teresa.We can also realize that people's emotion is beyond classes by friendship between 家樂and Teresa.

  Last part-Singlish.In the ILO ILO ,even I NOT STUPID,we can discover that Singapore has a very unique culture of languages.Singapore has four official languages,English, Malaysian language ,  Tamil language and Mandarin Chinese.What's more,because of many Chinese immigrants ,we can hear Hokkien〈福建話〉in their daily lives. Even more interesting is that Singapore creats their own style English-Singlish.It's grammar is directly applied Chinese grammar to English words.LAH is their modal particle.For example, 〝Not good one lah〞in English is 〝This is not good.〞In these years, the Singapore government tries to promote correction English for their citizens.Above,is my introduction ,thanks.