Tag: Arts
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Why A Racist ArtsSoc Blog Matters
By Yenee I laughed along with everyone else when Mr Li mispronounced a word in my Mandarin LOTE class, relieved that no one was making fun of me. I laughed nervously when my coworker turned a client’s name into the office swearword, secretly feeling sorry for the poor person whose family name was now spoken […]
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Humanities: A Death Story
Philosophy is dead, declared Stephen Hawking in his new book last year. In Mr Hawking’s view, philosophers have been mulling over the same thoughts for centuries, failing to catch up with science. He is not alone in this stand. The rivalry between the two disciplines is long known, and if we believe novelist C.P. Snow’s […]