The Singapore Solution to Racism

I brought out to the Sacramento City Council a few weeks ago the solution to racism that the territory of Singapore has used lo these many years.  They had the social problem that the many cultural groups were tearing the city apart through racial divisions.  Their government's solution is to integrate the many diverse cultural groups through housing; and they made members of diverse heritages and economic classes to live side-by-side each other.  In other words, they took away the privilege to families to live anywhere they wanted to!  That's my understanding of their proposal.  Importantly, it worked, as segregation dissolved into integration of the races and a playing down of cultural differences.

Now, some years ago, some large US industrial cities tried something like the Singapore Plan for ending segregation, but with complete and utter negative results.  The real estate developers didn't go for it because they actually make substantial lucre by feeding on the fear that groups have for one another.  Specifically, once blacks moved into a neighborhood that was predominantly white, the whites would want out--to another residential location; and meantime, more and more blacks moved in!  And, the demand for housing elsewhere, continues, to the delight of the real estate and construction industries!  The beat goes on based on human fear to maintain their own ways.

Moreover, this mass migration of cultural groups around a city, even a state, may be preferred by those individuals who wish to protect their own cultural heritage and background.  Thus, Scotsmen move to where their kind are already established.  It's the American way dating back to the time mankind inherited the earth!

So, you see, there's a reason to withstand integration among peoples, and another to become unified as one people and one national heritage.  Hooray for Singapore to make a stab at ending segregation and racism on their shores.  But, you need a strong national government to pull it off, I would imagine.

Incidentally, here's an egregious example where business works against the interests and goals of  the greater society.  Yet, what good might come from integration, as bespeaks housing, for the society as a whole?