50% of the Dutch support colonialism. They are also the first big western slave trading country to apologise for it. Why?

Sources:
The paper I wrote in universityIt (was written in 2015, so it is a bit dated):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PvI...QhEz-DVOj/view

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/internat...titudes-empire

Barkan, Elazar, The Guilt of Nations. Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices (Londen 2000).

Gert J. Oostindie - Squaring the circle: Commemorating the VOC after 400 years. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Vol. 159, No. 1 (2003), pp. 135-161 Published by: KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

Rose Mary Allen, Esther Captain, Matthias van Rossum, Urwin Vyent (eds.) Staat & Slavernij - Het Nederlandse koloniale slavernij* verleden en zijn doorwerkingen. (2023)

Thompson, Janna, Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparations and Historical Injustice (Cambridge 2002).