Zhai Gen

Graduate student at @ucsantabarbara @UCSBPoliSci with @FulbrightPrgrm | Climate Policy & Politics in SEA | 🇲🇾 | ex @UnivOxford @UniofOxford

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

@melatinungsari Haha we had an early one and everything but turkey haha. Really good food from everywhere else haha

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

SEA food consumption leans heavily on eating out anyway, cannot rule out the possibility of a culture of eating out. This might reflect on why relative prices outside is lower, and persistence of hawkers.

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

Could be the starting line for my dissertation in the future.

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

@beckstheqn Haha "given up"

[Pieter E. Stek @PE_Stek]

What does Trump's re-election mean for ESG in Southeast Asia? It's basically a wake-up call that ESG policies and practices cannot afford to leave vulnerable groups behind. It cannot be an elite project.

https://t.co/G4hUrUqpT0

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

@beckstheqn Haha please don't jinx it...

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

@markcheongwl @melatinungsari Salah DAP la. Always salah DAP

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

10 years ago, we didn't believe voting would have changed anything in Msia.

Until we did. It's not just about winning, but that we could cross the ethnic divide together.

Do vote

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

@brendanykc He's been on your YouTube for like one month since I've been here...

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

Nice work @chuncheekok !! Can't wait to read it too, important work new villages.

Also please hire Chun Chee, he is a fantastic researcher - glad to see him come all the way!

[Chun Chee Kok @chuncheekok]

I am on the Job Market! Thanks to my advisors @essobecker @PaulRaschky and friends at @TheRealSodaLabs.

My JMP studies the effects of a large-scale colonial resettlement program in Malaysia on contemporary economic and voting outcomes.

My website: https://t.co/CCsDmXB9xb

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

My friends once said my notes read like haiku.

I think his notes are better haiku material than mine.

[Dr Mahathir Mohamad @chedetofficial]

𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗦

1. Lately I have been mystified.

2. There is a report that organised crime is found in Malaysia.

3. What I cannot understand is the report that they paid income tax and also fines.

4. Do criminals pay taxes.

5. How do they declare the source of their income.

6. Can they say they stole the money.

7. If they pay tax on their stolen income, do they get to keep the balance after taxes.

8. Do the income tax people report to MACC about the stolen income.

9. Do they report to the police.

10.I understand all the businesses of these organised criminals have been closed.

11.What happens to the workers?

12.Have they lost their jobs and their pay.

13.Or is the Government looking after them.

14.I fully support police action against these organised criminals. It seems that they operate in twenty other countries.

15.The report says the police have asked these countries to act against these organised criminals.

16.What is the cooperation shown by foreign police?

17.Have they sent back the criminals to Malaysia?

18.Or have they arrested these criminal organisers.

19.I am mystified.

20.Can somebody enlighten me.

DR. MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD
3 November 2024

[Amanda Sahar d’Urso @asdurso]

Check out our working paper feat 7 studies on backlash against the term “Latinx” among Latinos. We find, in part, conservatism and anti-lgbt+ attitudes are strong drivers, more than anti-intellectualism or issues with changing a Spanish language term with American influence.

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

She's not Malaysian.

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

The gendered discourse on whether one's vote is secret here is interesting. It was common back home in Msia - the whispers by my more conservative colleagues over not voting what their family are voting for was the sign that things have changed. Never thought the US had it too.

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

Which has been the case for Msia for a few decades.

Can't help but feel that the political configuration and language will come closer to Msia'. The norm of politicians using the language of the divine retribution will come, but also whether that retribution will ever come.

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[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

Not UCSB to clarify. Everyone has been really respectful and thoughtful.

[Zhai Gen @ZhaiGenT]

It's never a good look when a white women doing a PhD in Theology in a big uni talking down to an actual Buddhist that their religion is not exactly theology.