December 2010 - Penang Monthly (Page 2)

Of Urban Parochialism And Rural Cosmopolitanism

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Something that increasingly troubles me is the common supposition that urbanites are cosmopolitan by virtue of being urbanites. Not only does that bias attrib...

I Am Everyday People

Kindly reproduced from Penang Portraits by Francine Linssen and Jennifer Heal, published by Penang Passion, isbn 978-983-42360-5-2. For the full stories about t...

Oktoberfest

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 It was that time of the year again: an entire evening where drinking obscene amounts of alcohol is not only socially acceptable, but practically a r...