09.29.06

Debunking Multiculturalism and Secularism – A Rejoinder (Link to miniblog)

Posted in Theological Issues at 12:58 pm by Kam Weng

I have been honored to receive two replies to my article “Multiculturalism – How Can it be Wrong?” published in the STAR (25/08/2006), which was in fact a response to an earlier article “Debunking Multiculturalism” written by Md Asham Ahmad from IKIM (STAR 22/08/06).
Due to the constraint of time, I shall presently only give a [...]

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Debunking Multiculturalism and Secularism – A Rejoinder

Posted in Dialog, Social-Cultural Analysis, miniblog at 12:48 pm by Kam Weng

I have been honored to receive two replies to my article “Multiculturalism – How Can it be Wrong?? published in the STAR (25/08/2006), which was in fact a response to an an earlier article “Debunking Multiculturalism” written by Md Asham Ahmad from IKIM (STAR 22/08/06).

Due to the constraint of time, I shall presently only give a brief response to a few issues raised by Md Asham Ahmad and Marzuki Mohamad in their responses to my article.

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09.20.06

Cultural Relativism and Universal Values

Posted in Culture/Society, Social-Cultural Analysis at 10:52 am by Kam Weng

Maybe scholars debating on the subject of cultural relativism in splendid isolation in the university could benefit from the work done by colleagues who have taken the trouble to collect data from field works. For this reason, I offer below some of the insights on culture taken from scholars from a generation earlier. Presumably, they spoke with authenticity given their vast experience of first hand encounters with other cultures.

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