The Dutch are well known racists, and appartheid practicioners, with their best examples in West Indies and in South Africa. They had the worst collonial system, and Indonesians were unfortunate to get them.
Not sure Dutch are any worse than Belgian, Germans, Brits or French....
Belgium could be a candidate, but Congo was a personal property of King Leopold.
So, back to those "Bali kids". I think they made the right decision to stay in Indonesia. Might help them to some positive discrimination, being indo and educated.
I have flat out told that I was not welcome in a couple of places in Asia. Fine with me. I wouldn't enjoy being somewhere I wasn't wanted anyway.
As a white person growing up with a cultural legacy that emphasized the "superiority" of being white and European it is easy to shrug off the very few personal experiences of anti white hostility. For non white, Asian or non European descendants growing up in a world of legislated discrimination there is a consequent level of sensitivity of being reminded by "superior" whites that they are inferior. Not so easy to shrug off.
Same for Japanese bars in Bangkok (Thanya Rd). Same for some of the giant massage parlors in BKK.
Never heard of this. Give us some names.
Is it a forbidden entry for any walk-in customer, or just for foreigners?
This is true about the USA. I was raised there, born in Memphis Tn. In the 50's. The segregation was like you said rampant until the 60's. These were interesting times then. A lot changed very quickly and a lot did not! My Dad was from Poland,so he knew racism all to well growing in the poor part of NYC during the depression. He raised his kids to not judge a person by the color of their skin, but by their character, and actions! My friends were not so lucky, their parents hated the Blacks and called them the N word and screwed up their kids a lot.
It is important to remember that Indonesia has a history of racial discrimination that dates back many years. One can simply look back at how the Indonesian government treated its Chinese and, to some extent, Indian populations. This treatment starkly contrasts with the treatment of people of Arab descent.
A clear illustration of this can be seen when we compare countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and Hong Kong contrasted with East Timor, Suriname, Portuguese India, Mozambique, and Angola.
In 1969 after an election result in Malaysia that saw Chinese celebrating, riding around in vehicles and crowing about their win, this sparked a deadly race riot. The army did not allow Chinese to become soldiers and when the army was sent into troubled areas they used the opportunity to kill Chinese.
I remember those times here. Many people lost everything and had to flee for their lives. This is what happens when life is hard, people tend to look for a scapegoat to blame for all the hardships, instead of looking at themselves or their own authorities. From what I've seen having gone to India several times and seeing businesses here run by Chinese bosses. These people are hard working and very organized and take care of their families first. But I must say some of the businesses I went too were not being very nice to their Bali staff. I observed the staff afraid to upset the boss in fear of being fired. I wanted to buy some fabric to try for my production. I only wanted a few meters of cloth to make samples and was told I had to buy an entire roll which was far too much. So I left and sought out stores more reasonable.
Sorry, but I am calling bullsh*t on this part. When a business grows, it most certainly benefits the community regardless of who the business employs. The local tax base expands - those taxes pay for programs that benefit the entire community: better schools, roads, police, fire departments, and the list goes on. Furthermore, a growing business must purchase more and more inventory. The vendors that provide that inventory may or may not be Chinese-owned. In the case of restaurants, the bulk food suppliers in the US are almost certainly not Chinese-owned. It would make no sense to import flour, beef, pork, most vegetables, etc all the way from China when China itself is a net importer of these goods from the US!
While it may be true that any business growth benefits the community if the proprietors are dismissive or contemptuous of customers or clients based on a sense of the proprietors being somehow superior due to race or class then this leads to a storing up of discontent and even hatred that may come back in times of strife. Another example is that of Indians in Kenya where they tend to be socially isolated and even within their own community often assess people on the basis of their standing or caste. If that person is seen as beneath them, as is often the way Africans in Kenya are regarded, then they may be treated with contempt. If the person is of a higher caste or class then they may be greeted in an obsequious manner. At times when rioting has broken out it has been the Indian shops first ransacked and national attacked.
This was why I specifically replied to the American context.
