attempts to smugpost on /r/singapore

11/11 is ww1 armistice day but somehow OP feels that we need to commemorate that in singapore? 11/11 is more like cyber monday in singapore. i guess the op is trying to feel superior by making the post.

OP

11.11 is a day of remembrance for people who fought and died for the place. It started as the armistice day of WW1 but it has expanded to the wars of the latter years. In singapore, perhaps the most important conflict is WW2. Lim bo seng, adnan saidi, liz choy and many more who sacrificed for their land, regardless of which flag is on these lands.

https://www.visitsingapore.com/see-do-singapore/history/memorials/kranji-war-memorial

“lest we forget” is usually associated with remembrance day.

**We do actually commemorate 11.11 at Kranji War Memorial as a matter of fact every year on the closest Sunday. There is low awareness of it which brings my point, its not JUST some European thing. Click on the link above to read more.....

comments

of course some /r/sg redditors won't miss this opportunity to dunk on the average redditor

OP is trying to make a serious point, but the comments are like....

: It's what happens when the average citizen doesn't bother about history after finishing school. This enables the government to demolish historical buildings left and right since it'll be met with relative apathy, which makes local history even staler, thus reducing the amount of shits given. Voila, we've got ourselves a vicious cycle

: nah, humans, as a species, is doomed to be stuck in a loop... we cannot break free from our own "programming".

we survive, we build, we innovate, then we will destroy, and loop repeats.

: Cuz the average Singaporean redditor is uneducated about history

: OP is making a stupid point by tying the Armistice Day which is the end of World War 1 with World War 2. World War 1 has nothing to do with us and he/she knows it so he tries to make the tenuous connection about "expanded to WW2". Purlease. There is infinite amounts of ways to say we should commemorate XXX day in history because it has something something to do with something today. […]

: Yes yes, please stay low and (try) to get rich, you without ideals or stake in this society.