DST
Well-Known Member
Having lived in the Far East in the Seveties, this is also about the size that the average Malay/Indonesian family would live in if they were servants. And that was in the 70's, and it hasn't changed much I can tell you. Sleep and wash in the same room, luckily you have a drain in the corner of the room with a shower head!!! (how lucky eh!!!)It is a plantation house and that 'shed', it's about six foot wide and ten feet deep, it's the slave quarters. That picture is taken in the villages going around one of the circles or roundabout if you prefer. I have no idea of why it's still standing other than to show the white folks in the villages what their ancestors got them? The villages is a self-contained retirement community, I paint there ever work day. It's about twenty square miles.
We met friends of my wifes in South Africa last year, they live in a mining town up in the Boondox, and get this, they are still not allowed to have SERVANTS, living in the house. The mining company will not allow it. It is company policy! All the house still have servants, they are just not allowed to stay as it will bring down the tone of the village. A lot of places still have a long way to go man.