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Perspective into Perspective Journeys Tours
Perspective Journeys tours are based on anthropological research and designed to give you insight to local cultural perspectives and how they relate to you.
Please feel free to discuss topics or issues that interest you so that a personalized tour can be designed. Each tour is 3.5 to 4 hours and begins at your hotel or a place of your choice.
Below are examples of popular tours and topics. The topics below can be a tour by itself or be incorporated into a larger program. Each tour is tailor-made and is designed to suit your interests.
How is a typical tour like?
There is no standard or typical tour because every program is customized to suit your interests. You can see different themes below.
For someone who likes in depth tour of Buddhism, the whole tour can be designed to visit different types of monasteries. Others may like the tour to include a few other topics then the places will be changed accordingly.
So you can have in depth program or explore a wider scope of issues. Micro or macro - your choice!
What places are included in a tour?
Again, no standard places to visit.
Based on your interest and the number of topics you like to include in a tour, we will give you an itinerary. If there is a location you have been too, know very well or rather not go, another location will be suggested.
Some customers have done several tours on the same topic so the flexible itinerary allows our customers to get highly customized program.
This way, you can explore, get to know more places and gain a new perspective on your favorite topic/topics.
World War Two (WW2) from Overseas Chinese Perspective
How was the Chinese perspective different from the colonial British?
How was the relationship between the Chinese in Singapore and the British?
How did the British and Japanese help save Chinese during the Sook Ching massacre?
Why did Chinese come to Singapore?
How did the year 1860 changed demographics of Singapore and South East Asia?
What do they tell us about the relationship between the past and present and how it reacts to modernity?
This program offers you an overall view of Buddhism and information relevant to Buddhist cultures and monuments around the world.
What is a Buddha, Bodhisattva, Dharma Protector?
How many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are there?
Why Buddhas have different ethnicities in different countries? (Useful for antique collectors and art lovers)
This program looks at Chinese notion of religion and offers a context to understand Chinese religious institutions and its symbolic meaning.
How do you tell if a temple is Buddhist, Taoist, Confucianist?
What is Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism and what is the relationship between the three?
Is there a Chinese "religion"?
Culture & Commodity This program explores the extent in which culture can be appropriated as tourist products for popular consumption.
During the 1990s, Asian theme parks were introduced but it was not a success. It reflected the limits where culture can be commoditized as well as dynamics in tourism consumption.
This is a 3 in 1 program offering: 1) An introduction to Chinese legends and myths 2) A glimpse of pre WW2 society in Singapore 3)The "dos and don'ts" of packaging culture for tourism
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This
is a World War Two tour to explore how an event known as World War Two (WW2)
unfolds from the Overseas Chinese perspective.
