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Luke L's avatar

Speaking of my countryman you once had a conversation with - I dare to say that I can understand how some of my people preferred China than the west, out of grievances against the latter for starter. This is not intended as an excuse.

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Fortunately I am not Dutch :) My trip through Indonesia from Medan to Flores was excellent. People were friendly but robust, the food was great, plenty of 4 or 5 star hotels to stay in overnight. Planes good but roads terrible - but they are not great nowadays in the UK. I travelled for 40 days chatting to people all the way. The people seemed happier than West Europeans. I didn't want to give the impression that Indonesians are any less informed than Europeans, in fact I found them more open. Europeans are possibly more rigid in their ideas.

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Luke L's avatar

Fair enough.

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Luke L's avatar

"Replace (X) country population with Russians"

This is what the russians are doing in ukraine.

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