Singaporean

television is big on explaining Singaporeans to themselves.
Model families, Chinese, Malay, or Indian, act out little playlets
explicating the customs of each culture. The familial world implied in
these shows is like Leave It To Beaver without The Beave, a sphere of
idealized paternalism that can only remind Americans my age of America's
most fulsome public sense of itself in the mid-1950s.