The Art of Dismantling Cultural Pluralism

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

October 2017 FEATURE
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Malaysia is a special place for its natural geography and its human history, but most importantly of all, because of its demographic complexity.The peninsula is on the western receiving end of the wind systems of the Bay of Bengal, placed between huge and influential civilizations, and endowed as one of the world’s few archipelagic regions where the climate is kind, the seas generous and where coastal cultures developed separately from but knowledgeable of each other, isolated populations traded with each...

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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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