Mr Zacharoy Dass has mixed feelings on Singapore’s CMIO – Chinese-Malay-Indian-Others – classification framework.
As the son of a Singaporean-Indian father and Singaporean-Chinese mother, who studied Chinese, he appreciates how it was easier to get a new Housing Board flat when he and his Singaporean-Chinese wife applied as a minority-race couple.
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