It might be time for Singapore to rethink the way it categorises ethnic groups by perhaps expanding on the Chinese-Malay-Indian-Others (CMIO) model, academics at an online forum said at the Singapore Perspectives 2021 conference organised by the Institute of Policy Studies, a think tank at NUS. One of the panellists, Mr Mohammad Alami Musa, who is Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Algeria, President of the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis), and the Head of Studies in Inter-Religious Relations at the RSIS plural societies programme, said that the CMIO model could remain but be expanded to accommodate the diverse aspirations of how people want to be identified culturally or ethnically.