Penang: Once Cosmopolitan, Always Cosmopolitan

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

October 2022 EDITORIAL
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URBAN CENTRES, by their very nature of having concentrated populations, tend, also, to place people from different backgrounds in close proximity to each other. These people have to share space; they have to share smells, sights and sounds, and they have to tolerate differences.Tolerating differences can only go a certain distance, however, after which one has to start understanding each other and cultivate mutual respect. If that is done successfully, one may begin happily to do business with each other,...

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Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.

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