Modern Belgium is uncomfortable with its colonial history - and has reason to be.
Its colonial history is surely part of the answer, but colonies existed elsewhere.
Accidents of colonial history Indonesia was the Dutch-run bit of the East Indies, Malaysia the British bit help explain the rows over territory and culture.
Activist and historian Mark Curtis - author of the book Web of Deceit - believes there are other lessons to be learned from Britain's colonial history.
The origin of this belief in Africa is not clear, but researchers have linked it to Africa's colonial history where white skin was the epitome of beauty.
Given France's colonial history, that equation is an unhappy one.
By an accident of colonial history, they were separated from Malaysia, with which they share language and religion, and ended up part of Thailand, with its Thai-speaking, Buddhist majority.
For about twice as much still a bargain you can go get pampered in Bermuda, with its quirky mix of African heritage, colonial history and a love for those famously preppy shorts.
But government is largely self-administered and it has some trappings of nationhood - for example, competing in international sporting events under its own banner - and ended up under New Zealand's aegis only because of its colonial history.
"It was more for a show but everything would be ready and then they would then go and take this Rolls Royce up to a point or the hills and from there shoot the tiger that was already captured by their servants, " Pran Nevile, a writer and expert on India's colonial history, told the Reuters news agency.
The capital of the state, also called Guanajuato, has long been admired for its rich history and colonial architecture.
America's state governors launched a bipartisan effort to remove a provision in a congressional bill that would give the presidency more power in domestic crises over the National Guard , which traces its history back to the colonial militias.
The deed represents a history of imperial Britain and colonial South Australia.
Travers and the conservation staff at Colonial Williamsburg are now reversing 175 years of history.
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Though the history of the line is intertwined with the ugliness of colonial exploitation and the bygone era of big-game hunting, passengers on the Lunatic Express sought the same kicks that safari-goers in Kenya look to experience today.
The museum housed in this fortified castle of the colonial period is dedicated to the study of navigation, underwater archaeology and maritime history.
They can point to the fact the revolution was explicitly ruled legal by the Treaty Of Paris of 1783, and that much of British history afterward supports the idea of independence and the dismantling of the colonial empire.
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In the old part of town, near the Pangani River, a few buildings from the German colonial era and old houses of Indian traders bear cobwebbed witness to this part of history.
It's new because we - it's sort of, this goes to somewhat of intellectual history, but if you look at what happened the last two hundred years with the colonial era, when the Western powers invaded and colonized the Muslim world, what happened then is, and this is a fact, that so many of the Muslims turned their back on Islam, in a way.
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Its history in Myanmar, then called Burma, stretches back to 1862 when the country was under British colonial rule.
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