TEDxRdam talk - Frances Gouda
long history
goes back to Dutch East Indies
but not unique to Dutch colonialism
remember the past
tend to not to talk bad past
tend to talk about good history
historical memory
grave yard without space
cemmentary, how we remeber the past, dutch colonial history, western values, happy marriage between colonial, service and indigenious elites in the Dutch East Indies
oriental leaders
goes back to greece
ancient greece
followed by Roman Empire
emperor egalabus, unconvential, decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Roman depostism
Frances Gouda
Professor of history and gender studies
colonial past
influences our world view
overheated political discours
politicians NL
talk, immigration
only male and white
ecquality
lifecycle
back to overview
conclusion
think different
legitimaticy of leadership
is it normal to have, so many white male politicans?
example
obama
only a year in office
already protests
politicans have to be white?, not anymore
women
close to nature
less predictable
therefore less likely to become a leader of a country
female politicians, more, but rare, or more like, Aboutaleb, etc, more immigrants, but this is discusses by white male politicians
questions
usa
irethoric on slavery influence on perspective of ethniticity
