Banner in Planet Hollywood (belly dancing anyone? ;)
Road side signboard
Its summer break in middle east and the Arabs are coming in drove holidaying here in the city
It all started post 9/11 when some paranoid countries restricted the entry of Arab/Moslem travellers so with good marketing strategy, Malaysia was able to woo the Arabs tourist to spend ( $ ) their summer holiday here. Well I guess part of good marketing strategy is by having signboards in the city wriiten in Arabic as a gestrure of goodwill by the host country to its guests.
However, I personally think that's fine but to certain extend sometime we try to please our foreign guests so much and yet forgetting the locals who live in this beloved country. Take the road side signboard as an example, its written in English and Arabic but where is the sign in the national language here? Gone are also the sign in Chinese or Japanese...
Hmm... money can buy everything in this city it seems, even the natrional language policy.....
Gone are also the sign in Chinese or Japanese...
