The National Day Parade, Through the Eyes of an Indigenous Orang Laut Descendant
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All images courtesy of Firdaus Sani
Ask a local about Singapore’s origin story, and you’ll get similar versions of the same arc: we went from a mudflat to a modern city, to a metropolis. We’re an independent nation willed into being by hardworking immigrants and innovative post-independence planning.
As inspiring as it sounds, it’s a narrative that tends to forget the people who were here from the start. The indigenous communities who lived along our coasts and in our seas long
Ask a local about Singapore’s origin story, and you’ll get similar versions of the same arc: we went from a mudflat to a modern city, to a metropolis. We’re an independent nation willed into being by hardworking immigrants and innovative post-independence planning.
As inspiring as it sounds, it’s a narrative that tends to forget the people who were here from the start. The indigenous communities who lived along our coasts and in our seas long
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