Blast from the Past

At the Christmas party last weekend, I mentioned to the people seated with us that I was Indonesian.

Someone said, "Indonesia used to be a Dutch colony, right?"

I said, "Yes, for three and a half centuries."

Then they added, "My family is Dutch." And I was like, ummmm... Should I tell them that the Dutch were shitty colonizer and were so successful at keeping the Indonesian people uneducated that it actually took us three and a half frickin' centuries to smarten up and kick their collective butt out of the country? And that to this day we still secretly wish we'd been a British colony instead?

Luckily for them, I got distracted by food and didn't remember having that conversation until this morning. Heh.