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Managing racial bias in the civil service
RECENT incidents of racial bias in schools are worrying. After each reported case, officials typically deny: it did not happen and it is all a misunderstanding. Or they play it down: it is exceptional, so no big deal and no need to get excited. But almost certainly those things happened and they are corrosive of our 1Malaysian fabric.
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America’s Islamic centre
TO BUILD or not to build. That is the rancorous debate America is engaged in regarding a proposed Islamic community centre near Ground Zero - the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York.
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So what if China rules the world?
THE days of Pax Americana are over. So what if Pax Sinica were to rule the world? At its optimum size, during the Cold War period the US military was designed to fight two and a half conventional wars. Theoretically, it could fight a conventional war in Europe, another one in Asia and half a war in the Middle East and still survive. The US strategy was not put to test, courtesy of the Soviet Union’s break-up.
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Affordable homes remain a dream
WITH its idyllic villages and sprawling fields, Balik Pulau has always been known as the quiet, rustic side of Penang island, fortified by green hills from the hustle and bustle of George Town and other urban areas.
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Fight bigotry with tolerance
MALAYSIA is a melting pot of many different races and religions. The fact that there hasn’t been a major racial clash since that dreadful day on May 13, 1969, is testament to the high-level of tolerance Malaysians have towards one another.
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No place for racists and racism
IN early July, the issue of the non-Muslim societies at the Klang High School was highlighted in this column. Within a week, the problem had been solved and on July 14, I wrote: Dear readers, for the sake of our children, please do not see this as a racial or religious issue. It is not. It is an educational issue which affects the minds and outlook of the children. View this from a parent who sees it as his children’s future and upbringing. As I wrote on Monday, let’s not poison the minds of the young. We have been assured that is not a policy of the government. We will leave it at that and it is fervently hoped this was an isolated case. It could be the over-zealousness or mistake (whichever way you want to look at it) of one individual.
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