Singapore Culture Essay

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Background
Singapore, in the olden days was just a fishing village inhabited by an indigenous settlement, has now become a cosmopolitan city, diverse in culture, arts, architecture and language. Singapore’s population is about five million people. (5,312,400 – Statistics Singapore 2012)
There are several ethnic groups in Singapore which consist of Chinese 74.2%, Malay 13.3%, Indian 9.2% and other races 3.3%
Religions that exist in Singapore are Buddhism 33.3%, Islam 14.7%, Christianity 11.3%, Taoism 10.9%, Catholicism 7.1%, Hinduism 5.1%, other religions 0.7%, none 16.9% (Statistics Singapore, Census of Population 2010) (http://www.wufc2014.sg/about/singapore.html) English is consider as first language used to communicate among the ethnic groups. There are four major races in Singapore: Chinese as majority, Malay, Indian and Eurasian.

How Islam was spread in Singapore Islam was spread through Muslims traders who ware known and respect through their conduct and good morals. They were honest and truthful. Through their good morals, they preach people to embrace Islam. …show more content…

The main characteristics are as followed. Firstly, they believe in Mazhab Syafi'i. Then, it is estimated that it was brought by traders from Coromandel, Malabar, and Hadramaut. Considering that Hadramaut traders were dominantly in Singapore, therefore it is possibly concluded that spreading of Islam in Singapore was from Hadramaut in the beginning of 19 Century. Singapore was more famous after being opened by Raffles and became trade harbor since 1819; therefore traders were considered as the prominent actor here. (http://pascasarjana.umy.ac.id/index.php/en/jounal/) So we can conclude that Islam was spread in Singapore through Arab traders from the Middle

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