alienisme

Category: muse

  • Racism in Tourism

    It’s not just white people who go on holiday. ‘Non-white faces in travel brochures are rare except as smiling foreign waiters and exotic entertainers,’ said Michael Lomotey, who is black British. ‘Perhaps it’s assumed that black people all travel to visit friends and relatives and have no interest in travelling for leisure like everyone else…

  • Eating vs Drinking

    For more information about Tony Allan (one of my current favourite Professors), you can check him out here, or here. You can also see and hear how Tony speaks and glimpse at one of his remarkable publications.

  • Heat Wave

    I love England in a heat wave. It’s a different country. All the rules change. … You know what I mean. People are more at ease – a couple of days’ sunshine and we become Italians. … Robbie Turner in Atonement by Ian McEwan (p. 128)

  • Luar Negeri

    “Kalian sudah besar,” kata Papi pada Mbak Wiwiek, Mbak Titiek, aku, dan Tuti. “Papi sudah mendidik dan menjaga kalian sejak kecil, mendampingi kalian selama sekolah, sampai kalian menjadi wanita-wanita dewasa. Sekarang, papi ingin memberikan finishing touch pada kalian berupa pengalaman dan wawasan tinggal di negeri orang,” tutur Papi. Lebih jauh Papi mengatakan bahwa pengalaman di…

  • Islam

    For me, it’s always interesting to read anything about Islam that is written in English, because it’s either written by a Western, non-muslim writer, or it’s written for the consumption of the Western world. That was why when I saw this in print, I immediately read it, excitedly. And of course, aside from learning so…

  • Marriageable Virgin

    And why is it the women who have to be virgins? Why suffer torment to satisfy an asshole? Because the man who demands “virginity” from a woman is nothing but an asshole! Why don’t we behave as westerners do!? For them, since the problem of sex is resolved, they can move on to other things!…