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1. In your pairs, attempt both the HOI and the comparison question

2. You can find guiding questions and checklist in the worksheet

3. Write both yours and your partner's names as the title and answer below

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Everyone knows the reasons why the Federation is important to Singapore. It is the hinterland which produces rubber and tin and that keeps our shop‑window economy going. It is the base that made Singapore the capital city. Without this economic base, Singapore would not survive. Without merger … and an integration of our two economies, our economic position will slowly and steadily get worse. Your livelihood will get worse

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Source B: Published in a British newspaper, 2024

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Source B: Published in a British newspaper, 2024

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THE idea of a merger initially only involved Malaya and Singapore in 1959 and not the Borneo territories, says former Finance Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.

However, he said, first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman rejected the idea for two reasons – the growing communist influence in Southeast Asia which was also infiltrating Singapore through its ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) led by Lee Kuan Yew. “Tunku was concerned that if merged, the communist influence spreading in Singapore would spill over to Malaya,” Razaleigh said in his memoirs launched recently.

Secondly, merger with Singapore was seen as potentially causing social problems given the large Chinese population in Singapore that could undermine the slim Malay majority at that time.

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Source C: Lim Chin Siong — Barisan Sosialis Inauguration Speech, 17 September 1961

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Source C: Lim Chin Siong — Barisan Sosialis Inauguration Speech, 17 September 1961

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“A true merger with the Federation of Malaya implies that Singapore would join the Federation like Malacca and Penang… whereby its citizens would automatically become citizens of the Federation, having the same rights and obligations as citizens of the Federation…. If Tunku is prepared to accept us, we will not hesitate to support a true merger without reservations.”

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Lee Kuan Yew made this speech to persuade the people of Singapore to support the merger with Malaya. Source A states that, “without this economic base, Singapore would not survive,” he aimed to make the people understand that merger was necessary for their future. He wanted people to understand that without merging, Singapore’s economy would be weakend, and their lives would be full of suffering. This fear would make them more likely to support the merger.

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Lee Kuan Yew made this speech to convince Singaporeans to support merger. In source A, "Without merger … and an integration of our two economies, our economic position will slowly and steadily get worse. Your livelihood will get worse", this tells me that Merger is integral to Singapore's growth and economic and merger is beneficial to both the country and citizens.

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Lee Kuan Yew made this speech because he wanted to convince the people that merger with Malaya would be beneficial to Singapore. The economy in Singapore would not survive without Malaya as she is the hinterland that produces rubber and tin that keeps shop-window economy going. Lee Kuan Yew wanted people to support merger

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lee kuan yew wanted to convince people in Singapore to merge with Malaya for economic reasons. "Without merger... and an integration of our two economies, our economic position will slowly and steadily get worse.'' this is to make sure that people understand the importance of merger and would make people be for merger.

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Lee Kuan Yew made this speech to advocate for the merger. His aim was to persuade the public that Singapore's very economic survival depended on integrating with the Federation. He highlighted that the Federation's hinterland provided crucial resources like rubber and tin for Singapore's "shop-window economy." He explicitly warned that without this essential merger, "our livelihood will get worse economic position will slowly and steadily get worse."

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Lee Kuan Yew made this message which is catered to the citizens of Singapore. The message is to encourage Lee Yuan yews voyage to merge with Malaya. The message implies that Without Malaya, Singapore's Economic position would soon falter due to the circumstance's of not having resources as a small country. Source A states, "Without merger … and an integration of our two economies, our economic position will slowly and steadily get worse. Your livelihood will get worse" This explains that without Malaysia's economy to support Singapore's economy, Even the livelihood/lives of Singaporean citizens will slowly deteriorate due to Singapore's limited resources. Source A also states, "It is the hinterland which produces rubber and tin and that keeps our shop‑window economy going" This hints that Malaysia holds many extremely valuable resources which Singapore is in deeply need of as these resources are on high demand from Singapore as well. Thus, Lee Kuan Yew made this speech to encourage Singaporeans to join him in merging with Malaysia....

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Lee Kuan Yew made this speech to persuade people, specifically the Singaporean locals living during that time, to support the merger because the integral role of the hinterland and the economic benefits that would be reaped from the prospect of merging and the combination of the two economies would lift the economic status of Singapore to a higher degree away from worsening. He mentions, "...the Federation is important to Singapore" - "It is the hinterland which produces rubber and tin that keeps our shop-window economy going" and "Without merger ... and an integration of our two economies, our economic position will slowly and steadily get worse". This is connected to his support of the merger as well as what could happen if the merger failed to happen in, "Your livelihood will get worse".

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Lee Kuan Yew made this speech because without Malaysia, Singapore will be a communist country. So lee Kuan Yew wanted to also persuade the Singapore and to support the merger as he thinks merger is beneficial. Source A states that, "Without this economic base, Singapore would not survive," he aimed to make the people to support merger and that a merger would be beneficial. Without merger, Singapore's economy would then be weakened .

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Lee Kuan Yew wants to convince locals that the federation in Malaya is crucial for Singapore's economy so that they can gain the locals support. The evidence is "Without merger … and an integration of our two economies, our economic position will slowly and steadily get worse" This suggest that the living conditions of the locals will get really bad without meger with Malaya.

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Source B and C are similar because they would be spread to Malaya. From source B "Tunku was concerned that if merged, the communist influence spreading in Singapore would spill over to Malaya." From source C "citizens would automatically become citizens of the Federation, having the same rights and obligations as the citizens of the Federation"

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Lee Kuan Yew made this speech to convince the people who were against merger and support him. He wants to tell the people that merging would be beneficial because of common market and hinterland. " It is the hinterland which produces the rubber and tin that keep our economy going. It is the base that made Singapore the capital city ". Fewer taxes lowers the prices of goods you sell. more people will then buy and it will increase the customer base this improves the economy and more jobs created which reduces unemployment

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Lee Kuan Yew made this speech to encourage Singaporean citizens to support the merger to the. The source says "Your livelihoods will get worse", which shows that Lee Kuan Yew was speaking to everyday people. Kuan Yew wanted to tell Singaporeans that they needed to support the merger as if they don't, Singapore's economy will crumble.

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Lee Kuan Yew wanted to persuade the locals in Singapore with the many benefits the merger provides in order to gain support the merger. "

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Lee kuan Yew made this speech to convince Singaporean to merge with Malaya. Lee Kuan Yew wanted to tell the tell the people if they join Malaya as they have hinterland that produces rubber and tin that will keep economies growing. From the text "Without this economies base, Singapore would not survive. " This Lee kuan yew was persistent to have a merge with malaya

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Lee kuan yew made this speech as he wanted to convince the Singaporeans to go for merger from " without merger, and an integration of our two economies, our economic positionswill slowly and steadily get worse." this shows that the economy will not be as stable without merger and locals might agree to have merger to secure their future

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Lee Kuan Yew made this speech to Singaporeans to convince them to merge with Malaya. Lee Kuan Yew wants to show how our country will improve if we have Malaya on our side, and make the Singaporeans want to support the merging. " Without merger ... and an integration of our two economies , our economic position will slowly and steadily get worse. " This shows that without the federation by our side, Singapore will suffer in receiving good such as rubber and tin which is our main source of survival

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Lee Kuan Yew made this speech to convince the singaporeans how important having the merger is . Lee Kuan yew emphasized how much the federation affects us and he said " without merger.. and an integration of out two economies , out economic position will slowly and steadily get worse" shows how he is trying to scare and inform then what would happen if they did not merge .

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Lee kuan yew wanted to persuade the citizens by telling them the need to merge with malaya so that they would vote and support merger. Source a tells us " without merger... And an integration of our two economies, our economic position will slowly and steadily get worse. Your livelihood will get worse" this tells us that malaya was valuable to Singapore s economy and the longer that they delayed merger the more damage will be done to their lives

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both source b and c are similar in against merger, in source b, Malaya is concern in the communist in Singapore will affect Malaya and cause social problems due to the amount of Chinese population over the malay population, while in source c, the barisan sosialis did not want singaporeans to be treated as citizen of the federations.