My SO is singaporean. I will admit I've never lived there for more than a month, but I plan on moving there to live with her after I finish my PhD. I don't know

My SO is singaporean. I will admit I've never lived there for more than a month, but I plan on moving there to live with her after I finish my PhD. I don't know what you mean by "very culturally segregated," my experience there the couple of times I've been there is it's not as integrated as say it sounds like it was in the 60's, but it is significantly more diverse and integrated than it is here in the US. Mostly, people of different cultures do interact with each other quite a bit and there is a level of comfort the different races have which each other which is not the case in the US. This is just me, but I feel more comfortable there. It may sound silly, but people have a nicer and less judgemental stare than what I get in certain neighborhoods in the US. Also, regarding their authoritarianism, what I've learned from my gf is that it just is their culture to be more submissive to authority. I did not get this sense that everyone was on the edge of their seats to start a racewar or revolution or that there were issues "beneath the surface." A couple of people complain about foreigners, but that is mainly non-singaporeans of all races, not really "those Indians" or "those Malays." I do agree on cultural ground though that an authoritarian state would be counter-productive for the US, as I alluded to earlier.