Colonialism

One of the benefits race cite when they discuss the legacies that compoundists have left(a) behind in SEA is
that colonialists helped to democratize SEA. However, I struggle that for the most part, when colonialists
colonised SEA, they did non promote democracy surface of their own volition, rather, at the very outset,
colonialists incorporated territories under the colonial aegis and though agreements might have been
made with elites, the people were not involved in the decision-making process. With the use of the
army, British annexed Burma in good order up till the 17th parallel, France out rightly demanded Laos and
Cambodia and be to attack Siam if its claims were unmet.

Barring the undemocratic nature of territory encyclopedism at the expense of indigenous voices and
livelihoods, I argue that when the colonialists colonized SEA, they maintained, for a large part, the
patron-client relationship. In this special model of patron-client suck up relationship, the colonialists
demanded goods that could be exported and in the case of Indonesia, they implemented the cultivation
system that was to be enforced by local anesthetic elites, and only if the desires of the colonialists were met would
the position of the local elites be assured.



For instance, Owen provides evidence in his book that when
the local elites could not meet the demands of their colonial masters, and maintain harmony, they were
replaced and sons of religious leaders were co-opted. This was as well present in Philippines where Spanish
colonialists kept the local elites in creator if they met colonialists objectives. Hence the authority of the
local elites were not based on a new popular sovereignty model that colonialists had introduced, rather
it was a continuity and entrenchment of a modified version of the patron-client system. The innovative
and modified patron-client system that the colonialists had introduced not only did not alleviate the
visitation of the indigenous, it did not give the locals a say in...If you want to bring down a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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