Let’s globalise wisely
By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
September 2014 EDITORIAL
There is much to worry about in the world today, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which should give us reason to pause and consider what the long-term, persistent and negative consequences of the cultural shrinking of the world actually are.Politically, the assumption has been that more contact between peoples, more connectivity between governments and more convergence between civilisations are not only unavoidable but also beneficial for humanity.The present fear of the Ebola virus, just as with...
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.
