A few years ago, I was standing in line at the Customs checkpoint in Bangkok airport when a little blonde-haired boy caught my attention. He wanted to show me his toy truck and the light-up keychain hanging from his backpack….
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To Singaporeans complaining about whitewashing & cultural appropriation in Hollywood: PLEASE LAH. The same thing’s been happening in our own little film industry, and no-one seems to have spoken up about it. CASE ONE: Jack Neo’s “Ah Boyz to Men”:…
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For the Malays who love their colonialists.. What did Raffles and John Crawfurd (the Second Resident of Singapura) think of the Malays? Raffles: “He held that Malays were a rude, uncivilised and degraded race, much in decline from a high…
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What’s interesting to me in all this City Harvest stuff, is that no one is talking about this as a peril of Christianity. No one is using this as an example of how there’s something wrong with Christianity and Christians…
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Marie Claire Magazine’s article titled “10 Muslim Women Shatter Stereotypes by Showing Off Their Style” has been getting a lot of attention from Muslims on social media. While the target audience is probably a non-Muslim one, some American Muslim women…
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