Vivian replies to Douglas; or did he?

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Stumbled upon this interesting exchange between the Minister and a local young hawker...some parts are quite 'funny' when u read the responses of Singaporeans....
The young hawker's predicament also underscores how our hawker food  culture is really threatening to go the way of the dinosaurs......Taking over its place is food served by 'foreign talent' or locals switching to selling western food (which they are allowed to charge higher) instead of local fare.....no offence to foreign talent and western food, but given a choice, I'd have my char kway teow, laksa and chicken rice any day instead of pasta and xiaolongbao! I think most people would prefer to have ALL of it, the more the merrier so that we can have more choices...but we do not want to see local food being supplanted, as local food is not just food to fill our stomachs. There are certain things that you can't out a price tag on: our culture and our memories....

for those who have done the 2010 'A" level compre on FOOD, try to draw the links,, ,esp the part where Patricia O'Sullivan is saying about multi-national brands threatening long-established local food business, resulting in culinary diversity being diminished....

Note also the social media phenomenon:
-Minster's FaceBook....effective?
-do you think so many people will ask the kind of qns and give the kind of comments that they did in real life face-to-face?
-how credible are some of the comments made by those people? Do note that they are not anonymous (u can see their face and name), but they are NOT face-to-face
-what about the sarcastic and rude comments?
-how effective is social media in this case in bring certain issues to the attention of the govt? Was Douglas' qn even answered? [$5.80 if u sell spaghetti, but only $2.70 if u sell fishball noodles]
- etc etc blah blah blah.....

Qns:
1) 'The youth of today are too ready to discard their traditional culture'. To what extent is this true of you society?
2) How important is it to preserve our heritage today.
3) Should profit maximization be the only goal of business? (ACJC Prelim 2007)