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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2009
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/32833/1/DZUL173.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/32833/ |
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| Summary: | 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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