FlyingRainbowLlama

Just because you live in a country with certain policies, doesn't mean you have to agree with them.

Not every person in the southern States of the USA are racists and bigots like some would make them out to be.

Do you still go to Indonesia to visit? Or did you never return?

If you did, how did you like it? :)

You have it in your name, so should half of my classmates apologize to me for 500 years of slavery? No.

As for the Dutch, they were perhaps not as bad as others, but yeah they did some stupid shit, so did others.

Racism was a thing in the Dutch East Indies but compared to what other colonial powers have done throughout the times, that area was most likely very tame/ peaceful in the 1930s. This Dutch-indonesian woman just tells it like she saw it.

EDIT: "Public opinion in the Netherlands began to decry the deplorable treatment of Indonesians under the colonial government. In response, the Liberal Period was initiated. From 1870, farmers no longer had to provide export crops, and the Indies were opened to private enterprise"

source: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/indonesia/history#150736#ixzz47JfbAUFo

As you can see while they were subjugated, the public opinion wasn't "against" the natives.

Well most people don't see it in a monetary way at all. Abolitionism (the kind of thinking that has led to these kinds of prisons) started largely in Norway with Nils Christie as one of the most prominent 'philosopher's". In other countries the revenge theory is still the by far the biggest reason why they have that kind of justice system in place and monetary reasons are just an "excuse" for whichever theory a country adheres to (consequence theory, abolitionism (Scandinavia) and revenge theory (USA))

When the definition of a theory like this is basically "you get what you deserve and we don't really care much about the costs of it" then money is ultimately not the priority.

Source: wrote a paper on this about a month ago.

Perhaps it could be part of it, but she said that it was due to their treatement of her father who was one of the "1000 of Amahe"