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Title: |
The [Other] / [Same Different] Vegetable |
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| By (author): |
Sheere Ng |
| ISBN10-13: |
9819443644 : 9789819443642 |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
72 |
| Weight: |
.053 Kg. |
| Published: |
In Plain Words - October 2025 |
| List Price: |
17.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| [Side A] The Other Vegetable The way fruits and vegetables have been named is much like how people categorise and perceive one another. We take note of places of origin, distinctive appearances and make comparisons with what we know. While we may be more discreet about doing that to people, most donâ t think twice about calling a gourd â hairyâ or emphasising that a bawang (onion) is from â Bombayâ . Many fruit and vegetable names indicate the outsiders from or through whom they originate, as seen from the speakers of the respective languages. These names also communicate the feelings and ideas that communities have or have had about one another. And since Singaporeans inherited these names from colonisers and ancestors from other lands, some of these perceptions, often biased, are not even our own. [Side B] The Same Different Vegetable Are â Japanese tomatoesâ grown in Thailand still â Japaneseâ ? Is â premiumâ better than â specialityâ ? Is a sweet corn labelled â sweet cornâ sweeter than a sweet corn simply labelled â cornâ ? I added vegetable-labelling language to plant taxonomy to critique the scientific and commercial classification systems. Despite how they seem, both create value through distinction and are therefore compatible. |
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