The CMIO Model

In this essay, I will be reflecting on the findings from my group’s research project, firstly, focusing on the understanding of race and ethnicities in terms of the CMIO model, and how this racial classification through the CMIO model reflects a certain type of view of who Eurasians are and how the Eurasians have become marginalised.
Summary of findings
Based on my group’s findings, I was able to sieve out some interesting finding that almost one-third of the respondents were not aware able to describe who Eurasians are, whereby most of them describe Eurasians based on their physical attributes and grouping the Eurasians with Europeans or associating Eurasians with foreigners . In addition, many of the respondents felt that it was only right
This is in relation to the CMIO model that is utilised to reflect the Singaporean identity. However, the limitation of the CMIO model would be that it does not consider the diversity of races in the Singapore. Hence, with regards to the CMIO model in which the Chinese, Malay, and Indians are entitled to their own group, the Eurasians were forced to become the subordinate group as their “race” is not entitled to an individual group despite being one of the four ‘founding’ races of Singapore (Benjamin,
Interestingly, Benjamin (1976) also observed that concept of racial identification is solely along the lines of whether that individual is Chinese, Malay or Indian. Hence leaving the Eurasians out of the picture. This I believe explains why most of our respondents resoundingly agreed that Eurasians should be placed in the category of