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Yes, quite contrary to the Dutch! Whether is was South Africa, Suriname, Indonesia or elsewhere, they respected the local people and cultures, drew the map according to the local ethnic groups, let them speak their language, didn't impose their language and culture on others, made locals to colonial rulers and never used violence. Of course they came only in peace and without any profit intention... :useless:
Your paranoid hatred towards the English speaking world is getting ridiculous!
The Dutch didn't have such a fascist regime like the British.
In fact, the Dutch didn't have colonies.
What you mention are parts of the same Kingdom.
The Dutch couldn't even settle in the overseas areas.
Only if they got a job offered by the VOC or WIC.
And, a lot of Germans worked for the VOC too..
So.. Pot kettle black.. :grin:
The Dutch from the beginning had only a few trading posts, a fortress and some farming for supplying the ships. That was the case in Kaapstad (South Africa) and Batavia (Djakarta Indonesia).
While the Dutch traded and bargained with the local aristocracy, the British started to conquer entire areas for mining purposes.
Gold, diamonds, oil.
Of course the Dutch started to follow the same policy like the British, but that was after 1830.
Apartheid is a Dutch word, but it was brought to South Africa by the British.
The British invented the concentration camps. Not the German Nazi's.
Those camps were used to get the Dutch Boers under control by arresting them by the thousands.
The same trick they used in Malaya to suppress left wing independence fighters after ww2.
And then we have the numerous other countries where the British rampaged.
And I don't hate them.
I just don't like they steal, and always talk like they are Santaclaus.
The British and Americans would be more sympathetic to me if they just admitted they were assholes.
You can be the strongest nation in the world, but stop whining about good intentions. Is that so difficult?
BTW..
The Dutch even respected the local languages in Indonesia.
The Dutch learned to speak Indonesian.
And another thing.. Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia, studied in The Netherlands, and was a very good lawyer. He was a bright man, I consider him in the same group of influential people like Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.