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What’s in an Identity?

I spent my childhood years watching Doraemon cartoons dubbed in Indonesian every Sunday morning and memorizing a gazillion things from school from the Pancasila to the bible. While I took an interest in English books and writin...
by Belda Kosasih
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What makes a Southeast Asian?

NOTE: This piece is not written with the intention of promoting any particular argument. The intention is not to make any conclusions, but to be a beginning to what I hope will be a fascinating dialogue. Questions of identity h...
by Kirsten Han
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The Language Woes of a Young Singaporean

he elderly gentleman smiled at me, gesturing to my name tag with his wine glass. “Oh, you’re a Han too, like me. You should come join the Han Clan, we have trips back to Hainan Island. You speak Hainanese?” “No, I don...
by Kirsten Han
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