Tjalie Robinson is considered to be the author of unique Indo literature.
14 Facts About Tjalie Robinson
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Tjalie Robinson became the most influential post war Indo activist of his generation and the most important promoter of Indo culture anywhere.
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Tjalie Robinson attended secondary school in Batavia.
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Tjalie Robinson was part of a small group of intellectuals that engaged in cultural activity.
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The gruesome war experience influenced his life philosophy; nevertheless Tjalie Robinson never wrote much about his years as a POW.
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Tjalie Robinson originally attempted to find connection with the cultural and literary establishment of the Netherlands, but unwilling to assimilate he wanted to establish his own cultural network of Indo authors and artists.
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Tjalie Robinson developed a life philosophy that evolves around the nature of the Hunt, regularly writing about the practice of hunting as a parable for 'real' and 'truthful' living as he saw it.
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Tjalie Robinson has been attributed to having single-handedly preserved the historic hybrid Indo culture of the Dutch East Indies in literature.
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In search of a global vision on Indo culture and in a continued effort to resist assimilation Tjalie Robinson traveled to Latin America, where he compared the Indo community with the racially mixed people of that continent.
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Tjalie Robinson sympathised with the philosophical writings of the Spanish essayist Jose Ortega y Gasset, an outspoken proponent of perspectivism and in 1961 even initiated the creation of an Indo enclave in Spain, named 'El Atabal'.
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Tjalie Robinson felt there was less resistance in the USA to ethnic profiling of minorities and to create a cultural sanctuary for Indos he set up the Indo Community Center 'De Soos' in Victorville, near Los Angeles, which only allowed membership to people that were subscribed to the 'American Tong Tong' magazine.
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Tjalie Robinson's ashes were scattered in the Java Sea at Sunda Kelapa in Jakarta the same year.
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Tjalie Robinson's work is still regularly re-issued by publisher Moesson, The Hague.
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Tjalie Robinson has 1 son and 2 daughters from his first marriage, 1 son and 1 daughter from his second marriage and 1 son and 1 daughter from his third marriage.