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No, it won’t work. What “multi-culturalism”?

Jeff Ooi has posted the full text of Dr Keng Yaik’s speech here. It’s full of hope, but I remain skeptical, more so because such a call is disingenuous. While I do agree that the discussion of national identity shouldn’t be subsumed in communitarian ideology, I find it hard to imagine how else a ‘homogeneity’ can be envisioned without, in the end, putting to the sword any idea of a genuine ‘multi-ethnic’, ‘multi-religious’ society.

My contention is that we should remove our multi-cultural lenses rather than putting them on.
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Got balls anot?

I found a pair transplanted onto me. Yes, it sounds strange now, walking around with 2 pairs of the family jewels (destiny? the call to spread the seed?). Ridiculous, really, but I found the testicular fortitude to stand up to several people this morning. Ironic, too, since I was late for this morning’s meeting.
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Cynicism is a disease.

That is not to say that I do not succumb to it, only that it is easy to hide behind the smirk, the jaded, knowing laugh or the crinkled, disbelieving eyes.

Cynicism is a disease.

Like any cancer, you tend to feel your bowels go first, followed by the proverbial balls to do “what needs to be done”, replaced with the convenient “what’s the use?”
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