Racial Harmony Day 种族和谐日

Singapore

新加坡

Racial Harmony Day is celebrated annually on July 21.

The event is to commemorate the 1964 Race Riots, which took place on 21 July 1964.

During the riot, 23 people were killed and 454 injured.

Students are taught the importance of maintaining racial and religious harmony in Singapore’s multicultural and multi-ethnic society.

Racial Harmony Day was launched in 1997 as part of the National Education programme conducted by the Ministry of Education (MOE) for schools.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong attended Racial Harmony Day ever said:

"Singapore for many years did not have race riots or other racist incidents, this did not just occur naturally."

"In turn, we must understand that racial harmony is painstakingly created."

Singapore Government's approach is:

Do not hide the truth of the history of ethnic conflict, but instead make that incident as a national memorial day.

Let us bear in mind the lessons learnt from history and cherish the racial harmony we have today.

种族和谐日是在每年7月21日庆祝。

活动是为了纪念发生于1964年7月21日的种族骚乱。

当年的暴乱，有23人被杀及454人受伤。

学生们被教导在新加坡的多元文化和多种族社会里，保持种族和宗教和谐的重要性。

种族和谐日成立于1997年由教育部（MOE）为学校开展的全国教育计划的一部分。

新加坡李显龙总理在出席种族和谐日活动时曾说：

“新加坡过去那么多年不曾发生种族暴动或其他种族事件，这并非自然产生。”

“反过来,我们必须瞭解,种族和谐是我们辛苦创造出来的。”

新加坡政府的做法是：

不掩藏种族冲突的历史真相，反而把这个导致新加坡被分裂出去的种族事件的发生日作为全国性的纪念日。

让大家牢记历史教训，从而珍惜今日的种族和谐。

P/S: During our era, we did not have "Racial Harmony Day", but our text book cover also promote racial harmony.

注：我们那年代虽没“种族和谐日”，但我们的《生活教育》课本封面也提倡种族和谐。