当富裕的西方大国改变对亚洲移民的政策时,新加坡人才匮乏的问题更是雪上加霜。1960年代美国在越南打仗,它不希望拒亚洲人于门外的移民政策使它蒙受反亚洲人之嫌,于是决定改变,允许亚洲人移民美国,扭转了一个多世纪来只接受白人移民的政策。加拿大、澳大利亚和新西兰三个地大人稀的国家不久也相继效法。新加坡因此失去一大批来自马来西亚的华族和印度族人才。1970年代末期以后,人才短缺的问题进一步恶化,约 The problem of the shortage of talent in Singapore is even worse when the rich Western powers change their policies on Asian immigrants. The United States, which fought Vietnam in the 1960s, did not want to reject Asian settlers' immigration policies to make it anti-Asian so decided to change and allow Asians to emigrate to the United States, reversing the policy of accepting white immigrants for more than a century . Three countries, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, which were sparsely populated, soon followed suit. As a result, Singapore has lost a large number of Chinese and Indian Talents from Malaysia. After the late 1970s, the problem of shortage of talents further worsened, about