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Before I was an AI ethicist and software product manager, I was first the product of a post colonial society and a scholar of post colonial and independence histories of SE Asia.

A theme that comes up often across the board with ‘why colonialism eventually failed’:

1. When we were attacked by others (like Japan), the European colonial forces showed weakness and this destroyed the myth that they could not be defeated

2. When our independence leaders went to the colonial powers to study, they saw, for the first time, Europeans not in positions of power, and started to see that they didn’t always have to kneel