Unity, CONFLICTS and Globalization

In 1908 some 30 students from the Dutch Indies in Holland set up a social organization to help one another. When processing the permit at the municipality administration, they were asked their nationality, a question that surprised them and set them thinking about what their nationality really was. Until then they usually said they had come from Java, Sumatra, Ambon, Banten and so forth.

In the Dutch Indies, a similar question was asked

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