The slow decline of Twitter as the default medium for sharing written content has interesting implications for the world of blogging and others of long-form writing on the internet. From a personal perspective, it also comes at an interesting time in the evolution of this particular blog, which is nearing its 1000th blogpost (this is […]
Category: Culture
What Does it Mean to be “Western” in the Netherlands? [Updated]
Some time ago I wrote about the curious case of Japanese colonial subjects in the Dutch East Indies. The interesting observation is that After concluding a Treaty of Trade and Navigation in 1896, the Netherlands and Japan recognised each other as most favoured nations, and subsequently the Tokyo government pressed the Dutch to accord its […]