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HERITAGE - Preserve The Past For The Future

“Heritage is not something static, lying hidden to be discovered, admired and conserved. It is a part of the lives of a
people, it shapes the ways a people meet new challenges and helps them adapt and to survive.”

Mr Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore
Chinese Heritage Centre’s 10th Anniversary Fundraising Dinner, July 2005

These pictures were taken when we visited Singapore’s Chinese Heritage Centre, Indian Heritage Centre and Malay Heritage Centre,
as part of our School Team Project on ‘Heritage Preservation’

Why should our generation care about heritage?

Our heritage is a legacy from our past. It is Importance of Heritage
something we live with today and, hopefully,
something that we can pass on to future Heritage plays a key role in building our national,
generations. The protection of our cultural community and personal identities, because it
heritage is an essential part of protecting our instils in us a sense of belonging, and expands
sense of identity - a sense of who we are. Our beyond our geographical boundaries to
cultural heritage underlines the present as a link encompass our way of life. Heritage is also
from a well-defined past to a future crafted by our important because it brings together different
actions, guided by our aspirations and our innate groups of people from diverse backgrounds, such
abilities, individually and collectively. as families, seniors, youth and new citizens, and
unites them through shared experiences.
What is Heritage? Heritage reflects upon one's ideologies, principles
and method of thinking.
Heritage is the representation of the ways of living
developed by a community and passed on from Threats to Heritage
one generation to another. It is the bequest of
physical artefacts and abstract attributes of a Our cultural heritage is getting destroyed faster
community that were taken over from previous today than at any other time in the past. An
generations, conserved in the present-day and understanding of the fundamental processes
bestowed for the advantage of future causing deterioration of ancient artefacts is
generations. Heritage can be broadly categorised urgently needed. The different forms of vandalism
into tangible and intangible cultural heritage. resulted from the human activities and
Tangible Heritage refers to physical artefacts, manifestations that harm the environment puts
instruments, objects, cultural spaces produced, the cultural heritage assets in danger. Some of
maintained and transmitted inter-generationally the many risks and dangers threatening cultural
in a society or community. Intangible Heritage heritage are wars, political-ethnic-religious
refers to the customs, traditions, manners, conflicts, burglary, illegal export and import,
wisdom and expertise connected with unsanctioned trafficking of cultural property,
communities, groups, society. In some cases, deterioration and environmental pollution.
individuals too are recognised as part of cultural
heritage.

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