MY SAY: The politics of karma
Last year, when a Hollywood celebrity tried to relate a major earthquake to the state of karma (simply put: you reap what you sow), she was heavily criticised. Some demanded an apology. How dare an AngloSaxon speak about something that she does not know much about. The disaster is a phenomenon of...
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| description | Last year, when a Hollywood celebrity tried to relate a major earthquake to the state of karma (simply put:
you reap what you sow), she was heavily criticised. Some demanded an apology. How dare an AngloSaxon
speak about something that she does not know much about. The disaster is a phenomenon of nature, so what
has karma got to do with it, argued some. The mood was unforgiving. One comment simply read: "Shut up,
shameless woman."
So, when I chanced upon a commentary entitled "Blame our karma for our predicament", 1 was naturally
curious. How so this time? That it was written by a nonAnglo
Saxon woman — probably Buddhist, going by the
name — made me even more curious. |
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| spelling | usm.eprints-328332017-04-05T07:10:17Z http://eprints.usm.my/32833/ MY SAY: The politics of karma Abd Razak, Dzulkifli HC79 Special topics-Including air pollution, automation,consumer demand, famines, flow of funds,etc. Last year, when a Hollywood celebrity tried to relate a major earthquake to the state of karma (simply put: you reap what you sow), she was heavily criticised. Some demanded an apology. How dare an AngloSaxon speak about something that she does not know much about. The disaster is a phenomenon of nature, so what has karma got to do with it, argued some. The mood was unforgiving. One comment simply read: "Shut up, shameless woman." So, when I chanced upon a commentary entitled "Blame our karma for our predicament", 1 was naturally curious. How so this time? That it was written by a nonAnglo Saxon woman — probably Buddhist, going by the name — made me even more curious. 2009-02-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/32833/1/DZUL173.pdf Abd Razak, Dzulkifli (2009) MY SAY: The politics of karma. The Edge Malaysia. |
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