Since the queen’s death, South and Southeast Asians have been sharing how colonialism has shaped identity, and how it’s played out differently across generations, cultures and through different periods of immigration.
Ewing said that while the queen’s early rule, which began in 1952, coincided with independence movements across several British colonies, the empire itself was guilty of stifling them to maintain control. In Southeast Asia, the British Empire launched counterinsurgency movements in the 1950s and 1960s across Vietnam, Myanmar, Burma and Malaya, a British colony of several states on the Malay peninsula that later made up part of what is now Malaysia.
“When you walk into my campus, the first thing you see is a statue of Queen Victoria on her throne. And at the bottom it’s carved, ‘The Empress of India,’” she said. “That has shaped my identity. I remember just being furious…I had to see her presence every day for four years.” The Kohinoor Diamond, the most famous artifact taken from South Asia by the British, was worn by Queen Elizabeth’s mother at her daughter’s coronation. It remains a part of the crown jewels, and the royal family has no public plans to return it.
The British Empire has shrunk in size, but the legacy of its violence and plundering remains across the world, she said. Ewing said that the confusion that some Asian Americans feel around belonging — the notion that they do not fit neatly into the culture of the U.S. or of their heritage — can be traced back, in many ways, to British colonialism.
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