This paragraph, right here, that I have just written, is definitely me taking the piss:
The Singapore government could not sit by and watch as these social vagaries, already spreading in the US, began to take root in Singapore. In order to arrest Singapore’s ‘Westernisation’ and stem the tide of an anti-social and selfish individualism that seemingly threatened to swallow Singapore whole, the government proposed grounding Singapore society in a set of anti-Western, Asian-inspired, communitarian values.
I'll probably have to rewrite that bit but it was fun while the piss-taking lasted.