I can imagine no country loves his colonizer, yet there are some benefits from being colonized by the British:
- what would India be without the good old English rail roads?
- how many tourists will disappear from Malaysia if none was able to speak good old English?
Maybe we British also are to blame: letting our fat beer bellies out after midnight howling in the streets looking for beer like mad dogs are looking for bitches…
Yet it’s easy to lure those British drunken tourists: put an English pub in the middle of Kuala Lumpur, make sure some pretty girls and night clubs are in the near proximity and everybody can be happy.
But it get’s sad when you put that concept in the middle of historical Malacca. I mean: do you really want to lure tourists with a roller-coaster, when you have a heritage city as Malacca to work with?
Wouldn’t you spend some money to restore the good old English charm of e.g. B&B Heeren House? Or is it that Malaysians forgot the history of Malacca in order for the Malaysian government not to help people who don’t have the word ‘bin’ in their name?
There is only 1 Malacca to visit on this planet, however there are 1001 roller-coasters in this world to choose from. So why does Malaysia put a roller-coaster in Malacca to make the historical town less appealing for those like me looking for good old English charm?
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