{"id":4151,"date":"2018-01-23T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-12T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T19:01:17","slug":"so-your-character-is-from-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/so-your-character-is-from-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"So Your Character is From Malaysia … Featuring Anna @ A Tsp & Naadhira @ Legenbooksdary"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nIt’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a crash course on how to write a character from these different places on our planet. If you haven’t checked out last week’s  So Your Character is from Sweden …<\/a> be sure to hop on over there and give it a read!<\/span>
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<\/span> It’s the first So Your Character Is … post of the year! Whoo hoo! I’m so happy to have these ladies on the blog! I had the pleasure of meeting Anna in person at Realm Makers 2017. She flew all the way from Malaysia to Reno to attend the conference!<\/span>
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<\/span> Disclaimer: The content below may be culturally shocking to some. Each of these posts are as uncensored as possible to preserve the authenticity of the cultures of each of the interviewees.<\/span>
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<\/span>Anna Tan grew up in Malaysia, the country that is not Singapore. She runs regular write-ins in her hometown of Penang with the Malaysian Writers Society (MYWriters) and LUMA to foster a greater sense of community amongst writers. She currently lives in Penang (the island<\/i>, of course, not the mainland), but has also lived in Sarawak and Kuala Lumpur. She writes, reads, and edits, both for fun and for food. <\/span>
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<\/span> My name is Naadhira and I am 18 years old. I live in the heart of the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. I consider myself as a part time college student and a full time reader and writer. There is a quote that I really love that goes with \u201cRead to escape reality, write to embrace it.\u201d And whenever I was given the chance to travel to other countries, I would enjoy throughout the time that I was given the opportunity to be there. The word wanderlust is enough to describe what I feel.<\/span>
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<\/span> What do you feel is unique to your country? Landmarks? Celebrations?<\/span><\/b>
\nAnna: <\/b>Malaysia is known for its multiculturalism. Or we tell ourselves that anyway, which leads to many public holidays! Because if you celebrate one culture\u2019s holidays, you have to celebrate the rest as well, don\u2019t you? (Here\u2019s a general list<\/a>, though some are only observed by individual states and not the whole country.)<\/span>
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<\/span> Off the top of my head, several famous landmarks in Malaysia are:<\/span><\/p>\n