08.29.06
Posted in Dialog, Social-Cultural Analysis, miniblog at 12:39 am by Kam Weng
These must be worrying times for Malaysian citizens if an official from IKIM, a government think-tank dedicated to the task of disseminating Islam as a tolerant religion, can come out with an article entitled “Debunking Multiculturalism� that appeared in the STAR (22/08/06).
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Posted in Dialog at 12:22 am by Kam Weng
“What bad News!� What else could we say to the newsagent as we grabbed a copy of the newspapers the morning after the September 11 attacks on America? We expected him to share our feelings of revulsion and horror. We were thus stunned when the newsagent grinned, gave the ‘thumbs-up’ signal and cheerfully declared the attacks to be “ Good news.� We were equally disgusted when a friend reported that the counter clerk she met in her bank argued that the Americans deserved what they got.
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08.23.06
Posted in miniblog at 9:31 pm by Kam Weng
I am currently busy preparing my talks for a public lecture series for an academic institution in a neighboring country. As such I can begin work on this blog only from Nov 2006. But my site maintenance engineer wants to get this template up before leaving the country.
God willing my existential crisis will be desperate [...]
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08.15.06
Posted in Culture/Society, Mission at 3:25 pm by Kam Weng
Newbigin offers just an ordinary dictionary definition. Culture as “the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another.�78ctc9
He added - A social product of human initiative, not an unchangeable datum. It comprises the “vast variety of human ways of living� including “all of that which constitutes man’s public life in society.�
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