“I was born in the wrong era”-thingy

Translation: “Who likes to romanticise the colonialism era? You might want to know the story of Pinah, a native Indonesian girl that got brought to the Netherlands as a slave and treated in such a cruel manner” — Instagram link (@historiadotid) This reminds me of a Threads post, saying something along the lines of “a lot of us thinking that we would be part of the upper class whenever we are watching period pieces (“Bridgerton” series and the likes). In reality, most of us would be the lower class, peasants, or even worse. The servants? They were actually lucky and doing good in life.” … and that stuck with me ever since. Especially with Indonesia’s history. “We are standing on the top of our ancestors’ bones, blood, and graves”-indeed. The featured image is a painting by Nicolaas Pieneman, depicting the arrest of Prince Diponegoro, a Javanese prince, by the Dutch. Please note that Nicolaas was a Dutchman and this painting was commissioned by De Kock/De Kock’s family, hence the…