Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "Why Doesn't Indonesia Speak Dutch?? (Documentary)" video.

  1. This video is full of shit. - There was no hundreds of years of Dutch colonial rule. There was hundreds of years of colonization as in settlements, that's different. The Dutch didn't do empire. You confusion is just not knowing the facts. - It was the VOC, it his known as the Dutch East India company by anglophones who can only understand things through British 'equivalents'. - It's main purpose was to take what would become the 80-years war overseas to the Portuguese and Spanish. Had a hot spike up your but for not being a good catholic recently? No? That's because that war was won by the Dutch. - The stock exchange is from 1611, because the VOC wanted to reinvest instead of paying dividend, and many of the initial investors were very ordinary people who didn't want to wait decades for ROI. - The Dutch were relgiious tolerant, unlike the others, they weren't killing people for believing in the wrong god, they accepted local customs and law, and were basically just traders and capitalist with a ony a bit of colonial crime on the side. - The VOC was nationalized, after bankruptcy, in 1795, not in 1800. - No, not over the course of the 18th century. There was a fundamental switch of policy and only around in the very late 19th century, to leave the net profit policy, rule the entire archipeloga themselves and civilize the people, for eventual independence. So when WWII broke out, there had only a been a few decades of Dutch rule in most of it including it's school building. - There was no chicken and egg problem, there was a problem of very few schools build yet. - Inlander just means indiginous or non-coastal. Of course the Dutch new they were all different. There's nothing paradoxal about that. The Paradox is with the Javanese nationalists claiming them all with their islands. - The Dutch reasserted control, which was necessary, because the Javanese nationalists showed they were ready for independence by mass killings of anybody not pure blooded inlander, whites, mixed race, Chinese, they were killend in racist slaughter by the tens of thousands. The Dutch were forced to accept premature independence by the USA, which of course wanted to end all European colonial rule so it could itself exploit the world VOC style. Indirectly, through local rule, with respect to culture and religion, but with their own language and violence when necessary, lots more of it.
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