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Regardless of Race
Janil Puthucheary explores potentially divisive fault lines in Singapore, covering issues such as race, religion, class and generational gap.
Singapore’s harmonious race relations has often been cited as one of its most remarkable achievements. But where do we really stand on race relations ?
Janil Puthucheary, chairperson of Onepeople.sg, the body that promotes racial harmony in Singapore, goes on a journey to find out what Singaporeans think. From conducting one of the largest nation-wide surveys, to having difficult conversations, the film sets out to pose the profound question on how we should confront our inherent biases.
Regardless of Race:
5 Years On
The string of racist incidents since the pandemic started has thrown Singapore’s racial harmony into doubt. By digging into the science behind racism, can Janil Puthucheary find new working solutions?
In a brand-new addition to the Regardless of… series, Dr. Janil Puthucheary (OnePeople.sg) revisits the issue of race – in the wake of multiple reports of racist incidents since the pandemic started. Yet, in a nationwide survey, Dr. Janil discovers that even more Singaporeans identify themselves as hardly or not racist at all, compared to 2016 survey.
Are most of us really ‘not part of the problem’? To find out, he gets the help of experts to put everyday Singaporeans in uncomfortable social experiments. Do you really get a lower salary by simply having a Malay name?
How far reaching is rental discrimination for someone who is Indian?
Why do these things happen again and again, even when most of us are not overtly racist?
From workplace discrimination to implicit biases, these experiments confront us with hard truths on how and why we can be racially biased… and not even know it.
Regardless of Race:
5 Years On
The string of racist incidents since the pandemic started has thrown Singapore’s racial harmony into doubt.
By digging into the science behind racism, can Janil Puthucheary find new working solutions?
Is ‘casual racism’ really as harmless as many think it is? With the help of a psychotherapist, Janil runs a social experiment that puts the majority-race participants at the receiving end of ‘casually racist’ remarks for 7 days.
He is shocked by the results. After revealing the impact of our implicit racial biases, Dr. Janil Puthucheary, chairman of OnePeople.sg looks into solutions in the second part of this two part series.
While laws have been strengthened to deal with racist acts and workplace discrimination, a nationwide survey reveals that minorities are more likely to feel that these moves won’t reduce racial prejudices.
Janil explores an AI-backed program that promises to free hiring processes from human bias. He also l checks out a bold research study where children are made to scruntinise race at a young age.
Regardless of Religion
Janil Puthucheary explores potentially divisive fault lines in Singapore, covering issues such as race, religion, class and generational gap.
Around the world, terror attacks threaten to tear countries apart.
Religiously motivated hate crimes are on the rise. Janil Puthucheary, chairperson of Onepeople.sg, finds out if we’re as resilient as we think we are.
Through candid conversations with people of different faiths, this programme goes to the heart of a matter of critical national importance – what will it take for Singapore to stay united – regardless of religion?
Regardless of Class
Janil Puthucheary explores potentially divisive fault lines in Singapore, covering issues such as race, religion, class and generational gap.
Singapore is a city of opportunity, a nation built upon the ideals of meritocracy, equality, and justice. But a nationwide survey reveals that Singapore's sharpest social divisions are not based on race, language, or religion, but class.
Regardless of Class examines the invisible line that cuts through the heart of a maturing nation.
Janil Puthucheary, the chairman of OnePeople.sg, goes on a journey to speak to people across the class spectrum. How deep is this class divide? And how can he bring the two sides together?
Regardless of Generation
Janil Puthucheary explores potentially divisive fault lines in Singapore, covering issues such as race, religion, class and generational gap.
Janil Puthucheary, Chairperson of Onepeople.sg, goes on a mission to uncover where the cracks lie between generations, tackling issues of reverse age-discrimination and freedom of expression in the process.
Singapore Education Reforms
Talking Point investigates a current issue or event, offering different perspectives to local stories and revealing how it all affects you.
This week, in a special episode of Talking Point, a group of parents and students get real about the slew of changes to Singapore's education system.
Unknown to them, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung is there to address their feedback.
Regardless of Sexuality
Janil Puthucheary explores potentially divisive fault lines in Singapore, covering issues such as race, religion, class and generational gap.
For the first time on national TV, LGBT individuals, their parents, and religious leaders get personal for a frank discussion on the rift that divides them. Join Janil Puthucheary, chairman of OnePeople.sg as he gets them to open up on how LGBT issues have deeply affected their lives and lives of people they care for.
Through these candid conversations, Janil hopes to answer: what does it take for LGBT individuals to reconcile their sexuality with family, faith and community – in a society that is just beginning to find its footing in accommodating them?
LGBT Issues: The Mufti Of Singapore Speaks
Janil Puthucheary explores potentially divisive fault lines in Singapore, covering issues such as race, religion, class, generational gap and sexuality.
Extracts of an interview with The Mufti of Singapore, Dr Nazirudin Mohd Nasir, were aired in the documentary Regardless of Sexuality.
Episode 1
Don't Call Us Poor: Life In Bukit Merah
Don't Call Us Poor is a groundbreaking series on life at the bottom, following five families on welfare over four months.
In the debut episode, meet Salbiah Zaharudin. Fresh out of the jail, six kids to feed, and no water supply.
Adding to her troubles, her son is in hospital after a road accident.
Episode 2
Don't Call Us Poor: Trouble At Home
In the second episode of Don’t Call Us Poor, Hong Chuan Chuan is 7 months pregnant with a husband whose temper cannot be controlled. The impact of the violence at home is evident in her two daughters, and with a new baby on the way, the stakes are even higher. About the show: Don’t Call Us Poor is a ground-breaking series on low-income families in Singapore.
Over four months, five families in Bukit Merah invited cameras into their lives, allowing fly-on-the-wall access as they navigate the ups and downs of life on social assistance. What emerges is a vivid portrait of a little-known and little-understood world.
Episode 5
Don't Call Us Poor:
Unexpected Crises
Life deals our families an unexpected twist in the final episode of Don't Call Us Poor.
Maslinda runs out of milk powder, and Chew Peng Wah suffers a stroke on the cusp of a new job. How will they find a way out?
Homeless in Singapore
Singapore boasts one of the world’s highest rates of homeownership, thanks to a much-lauded public housing programme. So, why do some people still end up homeless?
In Singapore, there are 22 night shelters or Safe Sound Sleeping Places (S3Ps), and six transitional shelters, providing temporary refuge for the homeless population as they await the availability of subsidised public rental flats. Shelter space is sufficient, but having a roof to sleep under comes with a slew of rules to follow. In part two of the series, we follow the lives of six homeless individuals as they face the unexpected challenges of sleeping in temporary shelters. What happens when they break the rules?
Hunger in
Singapore 1/2
In a 2018 paper, at least 125 food assistance groups were identified in Singapore. Yet, there are folks in need who still get infrequent or no food support at all - while many elderly beneficiaries receive too much, and sometimes, food aid that's not suitable.
How are charities and volunteer groups coming up with better solutions to feed the food insecure? How can food waste be used to tackle food insecurity? What kind of food should donors really be giving? This is a two-part special report exploring food insecurity, and the efforts to address it in Singapore.
WATCH PART 1: Why hunger exists in a first-world food paradise.
• Going Hungry In Singapore, A Cheap Fo... We hear from The Food Bank Singapore, Free Food From All, Willing Hearts, Food From The Heart, Keeping Hope Alive, Volunteer Switchboard and SG Food Rescue, on the challenges they face.
Hunger in
Singapore 2/2
In a 2018 paper, at least 125 food assistance groups were identified in Singapore. Yet, there are folks in need who still get infrequent or no food support at all - while many elderly beneficiaries receive too much, and sometimes, food aid that's not suitable.
How are charities and volunteer groups coming up with better solutions to feed the food insecure? How can food waste be used to tackle food insecurity? What kind of food should donors really be giving? This is a two-part special report exploring food insecurity, and the efforts to address it in Singapore.
WATCH PART 1: Why hunger exists in a first-world food paradise.
• Going Hungry In Singapore, A Cheap Fo... We hear from The Food Bank Singapore, Free Food From All, Willing Hearts, Food From The Heart, Keeping Hope Alive, Volunteer Switchboard and SG Food Rescue, on the challenges they face.
Singapore
1970s
Disco mania, a thriving economy, high-rise buildings and high-flying aspirations. Rediscover the spirit of Singapore in the 70s.
About In Our Time: Rediscover the decades that shaped a nation, and Singaporeans' stories behind the Singapore story.
Singapore
1980s
Singapore in the 1980s. An era marked by rapid progress and urban development, with bouts of tragedy testing a nation's resolve.
About In Our Time: Rediscover the decades that shaped a nation, and Singaporeans' stories behind the Singapore story.
Singapore
1990s
Disco mania, a thriving economy, high-rise buildings and high-flying aspirations. Rediscover the spirit of Singapore in the 70s.
About In Our Time: Rediscover the decades that shaped a nation, and Singaporeans' stories behind the Singapore story.
Singapore
2000s
Singapore in the 1980s. An era marked by rapid progress and urban development, with bouts of tragedy testing a nation's resolve.
About In Our Time: Rediscover the decades that shaped a nation, and Singaporeans' stories behind the Singapore story.