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Malaysia is a land rich in farmers, civil servants and electronics assembly workers, but poor in novelists. That's an odd deficit, given the country's high levels of literacy, prosperity and anxiety, as well as an abundance of history, politics, ethnic tension and other delicate topics that can be used as material. All of which makes Tash Aw's debut novel worthy of close inspection...
Often times, individuals falsely operate under the assumption that visible cultural and ethnic differences imply conflict, which would suggest that we ignore racial differences. Ignoring ethnic and racial differences and opting for a more homogenous society would, however, create more tension. Instead, ethnic and racial differences foster communication and dialogue that would otherwise be limited in a more homogenous society. In fact, it is our differences that can often make life interesting and worth living. At a time when members of our campus, both administrators and students, are discussing the nature of student groups on campus, it is important that...
...Foundation is meant to encourage a flow and exchange of culture, traditions, and heritage so that we can learn from our differences, but not to grant legitimacy to self-segregation by funding ethnic groups and their events. Self-segregation, in fact, is exactly what we all fear (second, perhaps, only to racism). The Foundation only funds events that are open to the entire Harvard community, and it also requires student groups to actively publicize those events on campus. Group-specific events are crucial—one cannot have the intercultural without the cultural. Thus, the celebration of particular cultures...
Furthermore, in its grants process the Harvard Foundation increases funding by 20 percent for organizations that co-sponsor their events with different ethnic organizations in hopes of bringing together both similar and different people. For instance, last semester the Foundation provided funding for “Stand up for Peace,” a night of comedy featuring an Arab comedian and Jewish comedian, which had a joint sponsorship from the Society of Arab Students and Harvard Students for Israel. In addition to supporting ethnic groups on campus, the Foundation hosts its own events that encourage the betterment of intercultural...
...improve race relations, whereas pulling on our similarities accomplishes less. At the airport, I’m never just a person—I’m a brown person. And there are issues that simply cannot be detached from this fact. The presence of ethnic organizations can bring issues like this to light. Only when there is adequate dialogue and discussion about being different will we come to some sort of understanding of who we are as a community. This is what the Foundation hopes to do. For, in the end, I, the Foundation, and Harvard as a university...