Assignment Task: According to Lau, which of the following was NOT part of the reason for the initial reluctance by the early political leaders of Singapore to use history in nation-building efforts during the independence years?
A. The leaders did not know how to exploit historical narratives to their advantage in nation building
B. The leaders wanted to focus on nation-building through political and economic development above all else
C. The leaders felt that there was not common historical lineage drawn from a multicultural and diverse immigrant society that could be used to bring people together
D. All the answers listed here are reasons for so
Lau, A. (2005). Nation building and the Singapore story: Some issues in the study of contemporary Singapore history. In G. Wang (Ed.), Nation-building: Five Southeast Asian histories (pp. 221 - 250). ISEAS.