US Cultural Colonisation in Asia Pacific | New Eastern Outlook
"Just as the Roman Empire did two millennia ago, the United States is
today recruiting cadres of young people from across Southeast Asia,
indoctrinating them into America's hegemonic networks and sending these cadres back to their home countries to culturally colonise them.
Instead of building up media platforms, institutions and NGOs based on
local values, culture and the best interests of the people living in
Southeast Asia, these cadres, with "seed funding" provided through both
the US State Department and the YSEALI itself, will be building networks
that serve US special interests, locked directly into the very
institutions and networks YSEALI alumni met and worked with during their
various fellowships.
Empire has not died. It has simply evolved,
with much of that evolution being superficial and the underlying
networks and methods remaining nearly indistinguishable to those
employed by the Romans, British and even by 19th century American
"Manifest Destiny."
Empire has not died because the fundamental
aspects of human nature; greed, the need to dominate, avarice and all
other negative qualities associated with absolute power corrupting
absolutely have not changed. No matter how progressive the US attempts
to dress up its "fellowships," the YSEALI and other programmes like it
will continue to be spoken of by those who are drawn into them as
"civilisation" when in fact they are only a "feature of their
enslavement.""
