http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_iftekhar_080222_in_the_prison_of_his.htm

(article at above URL)

In Bangladesh, we never identify with the African-American. Indeed, in South Asia, the middle class aspiration is to be like the white middle class: affluent. We forget that until recently, we were despised by our colonial masters, whose rule has proven so effective that we have become mental slaves – the only kind that endures "emancipation".