<nettime> Introducing Burma to the Nettime community

[Nadi@hotvoice.com]

Dear Nettime Community,

Below, FYI, is an item worthy of thoughts.  The letter from a Bangkok Post
reader which hits the nail right on the head.  Colonialism is not dead. It
is alive and well.  "Independence" is colonialism by other means,
practiced by Yellow, Black, and Brown masters on their own people and on
other ethnic nations. 

Yours,
Nadi
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Postbag -- Bangkok Post - December 20, 1999
The Asian masters remain in place 

Your article headed "Macau handover marks end of colonial era in Asia"
(Dec 17) is faulty. It must be corrected. It is the end of the European
colonial era. 

Many Asians took over the European role of masters. The best example is the
Javanese colonial empire called Indonesia. India's colonies are to its east,
mainly populated by non-Indians (Burmans, Tibetans, etc). China has Tibet as
a colony. Burma is kept together by Rangoon in a way not much different from
when London controlled it (although maybe slightly more brutal).
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