The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday April 12th, 2022 – Equal Pay Day
Equal Pay Day is the symbolic day dedicated to raising awareness of the gender pay gap. In the United States, this date symbolizes how far into the year the average median woman must work (in addition to their earnings last year) in order to have earned what the average median man had earned the entire previous year. The exact day differs year by year. In 2022, it was March 15. On average, women earn $0.82 for every dollar men earned in 2019.
The struggle to revive multi-culturalism – The lost Malaysian dream by Murray Hunter
The Tourism Malaysian highlights Malaysia’s ethnic diversity as a unique strength. The website proudly espouses Malaysia as the only “one place where all the colours, flavours and sights of Asia come together.” Yet the dominating Ketuanan Melayu (Malay supremacy) narrative advocates a Malaysian mono-culture, where anything non-Malay is a portrayed as a threat to the existence of the Malays and their way of life.
This paradox in what is espoused and what is the political reality on the ground is very quickly turning the concept of Malaysia as a multi-cultural nation into a myth. Multi-culturalism existed long ago, and is only remembered by the Merdeka generation today.
Their Malaya was a nation that had struggled to pull together a sense of mission about what Malaya, and later Malaysia would stand for.
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The Renewal #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“The sea carried
Their tears away,
Carried away
The centuries
Of sorrow
And sucked
In the pain”
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Berserk Alert! #014 #Cartoon by Tony Zuvela
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