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Originally Posted by mr.x
I'm quite proud too...but all we had to do for much of our history was sell resources. If we can't even do that, we don't deserve to be a country.  Our city has certainly come a long way since 1886, a village with just a few hundred people.
On the other hand, one city I really admire is Singapore....nothing but rainforests and a small island to work with, no resources, then utterly transformed into a cosmopolitan centre of commerce and tourism in less than half a century through hard work, sacrifice, and determination. |
I agree but I do want to be a Debbie Downer and state that they also didn't practice 'our type' of democracy during that process.
But yeah, I miss the random high fiving.
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