Reflection topic 2

Blog Topic:The national museum has decided to erect a statue in front of its entrance. They have to choose between Stamford Raffles and Tan Tock Seng. If you were working for the museum, who would you choose and why?

In my opinion,I would choose to erect a statue of Tan Tock Seng.One of the many reasons is that Stamford Raffles although most records in history record him to be the founder of singapore,it was possible that many historians were pressured into writing propeganda because of the British power.

Tan Tock Seng might be one of our local founders of Singapore as little is mentioned about the local merchants who helped to build the foundations of Singhapore.Although Tan Tock Seng was born in melaka,he contributed much to the sucess of present Singapore.

Many Singaporeans only refer to Stamford Raffles as our founder,they completely forgot about the local ancestors who have made many things possible today.Tan Tock Seng helped built a pauper hospital in Pearl's Hill where people could seek treatment at little or no cost,this helped the standards of hygiene to improve tremendously and reduced the rate of death.

I did not choose Sir Stamford Raffles because Stamford Raffles already had a statue erected at Victoria Theatre Hall and people coming out of the museum might already have read about him in the museum.