{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The Mugabe stuff reminds me, one of my childhood friends\u2019 moms had grown up white Rhodesian, I think. Def. British colonial in...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/167725909233/", "html": "<p>The Mugabe stuff reminds me, one of my childhood friends\u2019 moms had grown up white Rhodesian, I think. Def. British colonial in Africa and not South Africa, the timeline from the one time she mentioned escaping by plane while farms burned out the window lines up</p><p>Didn\u2019t explicitly come up other than that time, the main effects I got were</p><p>- she had that singsong lilting African English accent that maybe came from Raj colonials?</p><p>- she made a mean curry and tikka masala as everyday meals</p><p>- she had this frankly weird sense of Australia as an exotic paradise-on-earth</p>"}