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Placing heritage on the map
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When George Town was listed as a World Heritage Site (WHS) on July 7, 2008 (together with Malacca), the city’s profile as an international cultural touris...
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All you hybrids, emerge from your closet
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Ethnocentrism is not the opposite of multiracialism. For some reason, we tend to suppose it to be so. The truth of the matter is, the contradistinction betwee...
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