Preferences for the Majority
Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, October 2008
In the United States, racial preferences are for minorities. Most Americans can hardly imagine preferences for the majority and if they even think about it assume that if whites become a minority racial preferences will be finished. They shouldn’t count on it. Malaysia had preferences for the majority Malays even before independence in 1957, and has only extended them as time has gone by. The people who pay the price, mainly the largely Tamil Indian population, complain bitterly, and although there has been some talk of leveling the playing field, Malays are not about to give up their privileges.
Thailand’s Bhikkhunis Want Recognition and Respect
In a country with only a few hundred female monks in the Theravada branch of Buddhism, the lifestyle is quietly radical.
Thailand s Bhikkhunis Want Recognition and Respect
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The monks collect alms in Nakhon Pathom province.
Courtesy Sireerat Chetsumon (Ven. Dhammaparipunna)
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The Venerable Dhammavanna, a former journalist living in Nakhon Pathom province, about 30 miles outside Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, now wakes each morning at 5:30. First, she meditates, then has a breakfast of rice. Dressed in saffron robes, she tackles her morning work cleaning, welcoming visitors, even attending to IT snafus. She dines again at 11, and then takes classes in Buddhist teachings in the afternoon before completing community service tasks and winding down her day with chanting. She lives at Songdhammakalyani Monastery under the Venerable Dhammananda, the temple’s most senior monk.
International Forum on New Inclusive Asia 2020 held
December 17, 2020
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The International Forum on New Inclusive Asia 2020 was held on Thursday under the theme “BRI- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic changing reality and the way forward”.
The Forum was co-organized by the Islamabad-based Center for Global & Strategic Studies (CGSS), Malaysia’s Center for New Inclusive Asia, and Sri Lanka’s Verite Research Strategic Analysis in partnership with the Institute of the Belt and Road Initiative, Tsinghua University.
The Forum was supported by BRSN, the official international network of more than 100 BRI think tanks worldwide.
A panel of 16 distinguished experts/scholars from eight Countries participated at IFNIA 2020 including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Maldives, China, Japan, Thailand, and Bangladesh.