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Interesting place, Singapore. On the surface, very clean and orderly. (How?) (In the past few decades, some very popular musicians were not allowed to perform there. Who's doing the micro-managing?)

From Wikipedia's Singapore article:

Ethnic groups (2020)[b]

    74.3% Chinese

    13.5% Malay

    9.0% Indian

    3.2% Others ***

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Interestingly while the minorities have a higher birth rate compared to the majority Chinese, the ethnic breakdown remains the exact same throughout the decades. This is because Singapore's unsaid migration policy is such that the government takes in more immigrants of Chinese ethnicity to make up for the shortfall.

Keeping it at a fixed ratio indefinitely has a plausible legitimate reason, preventing the inevitable backroom political battles and bribery schemes by various groups seeking to tilt the immigration ratio in their favour.

There has been a lot of friction between locals and Chinese immigrants lately, especially with the rising cost of living. Public sentiment is quite negative, but the government seems happy importing more wealthy Chinese.

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