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		<title>East vs. West: Malaysian vs. Kiwi Education (Part 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenwong1859</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[3. Memorization of Scientific Facts vs. Hands-on Practical Experiences As I’ve noted before, Malaysian education is all about exams – the goal is not to promote practical knowledge, but to get an unbroken list of “A+”s on the exam transcript. So when it comes to science, we don’t care that much about the experiments. After [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30891453&amp;post=100&amp;subd=humanisticperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia Sends Saudi Back to be Beheaded</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenwong1859</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital Punishment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why, Malaysia, why? 23-year old Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari was detained by Malaysia officials at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) while en route to New Zealand. Why, you ask? Well, Kashgari was escaping from Saudi officials who wants him dead over 3 Twitter posts that “insulted” the Prophet Muhammad: 1. On your birthday, I will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30891453&amp;post=91&amp;subd=humanisticperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>East vs. West: Malaysian vs. Kiwi Education (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/east-vs-west-malaysian-vs-kiwi-education-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenwong1859</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discipline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[…continued 2. Strict vs. Lax Discipline This is superfluously obvious. While in Malaysian schools you can face disciplinary action for eating a candy, in Piopio College I have had a classmate bring food (apple caramel cake, was it?) into the class after her cooking lesson to share with the class. That includes the teacher. Of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30891453&amp;post=86&amp;subd=humanisticperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>East vs. West: Malaysian vs. Kiwi Education (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/east-vs-west-malaysian-vs-kiwi-education-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenwong1859</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During July 2010, I went to New Zealand on an American Field Service (AFS) student exchange program for 8 weeks. I lived with my awesome host family there – Pākehā dad,&#160; Māori mom, and two cute little kids – on their farm, with cows and sheep and stuff. Made lots of great friends too – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30891453&amp;post=74&amp;subd=humanisticperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hot&#8221; and &#8220;Cold&#8221; in Chinese Medicine&#8211;A Meaningless Concept</title>
		<link>http://humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/hot-and-cold-in-chinese-medicinea-meaningless-concept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenwong1859</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop eating chocolates, you’re already on heat. Don’t eat durians and drink alcohol together, you’ll get too hot. Stop drinking iced water, you’ll get cold. You&#8217;ll be on heat if you eat more of those chilies. Those of us born in Chinese families will certainly be familiar with these well-meant advices from our parents and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30891453&amp;post=68&amp;subd=humanisticperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Dragon Year 2012! 2012 龙年快乐!</title>
		<link>http://humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/happy-dragon-year-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenwong1859</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sculpture of a Chinese Dragon in the Summer Palace in Beijing, China. Credit goes to Fanghong. Hey guess what? From this day (January 23 2012, Monday) onwards, it’s the Year of the Dragon! The dragon is the 5th out of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals, and it&#8217;s the only zodiac animal that is mythical and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30891453&amp;post=56&amp;subd=humanisticperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On SOPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenwong1859</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very soon, the US government may pass an act, that if implemented, will potentially threaten free speech on the Internet. It’s called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), or H.R.3261. The bill’s goal is: To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes Now, I am not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30891453&amp;post=46&amp;subd=humanisticperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Corruption of moral values? Must be those Westerners!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/corruption-of-moral-values-must-be-those-westerners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenwong1859</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, you read that right. You Westerners are responsible for every single shit that’s happening today in Malaysia – increased crime rates, increased murders, open expression of sexuality, homosexuality, pornography, prostitution, violent games, individualism, heightening divorce rates, and *gasp* Western fashion! Shame on you with flooding our nation with your evil, hedonistic, corrupt culture! Or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30891453&amp;post=41&amp;subd=humanisticperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion is Mostly Justified (Part 3)</title>
		<link>http://humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/abortion-is-mostly-justified-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenwong1859</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find that too often in discussions about abortion, the mother’s rights get ignored. Since my previous posts were concerned with the fetus’s rights, let’s look at abortion from the mother’s point of view for a change. Let me start by writing about A Commonly Held Self-Contradicting View Now, almost everyone I’ve met supports abortion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30891453&amp;post=38&amp;subd=humanisticperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion is Mostly Justified (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/abortion-is-mostly-justified-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenwong1859</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While discussing whether abortion is morally sound with my friends, I’ve noticed that while most of them are OK with stem cell research (which destroys a ball-shaped blastula), they are against abortion when the fetus starts to resemble a human. They say that it’s cruel. I have also noticed arguments stating that fetuses are genetically [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humanisticperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30891453&amp;post=32&amp;subd=humanisticperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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