His father, a retired engineer, is a rather secretive and reserved 'Englishman', in the usual colonial model.
"It's not the primitive colonial model, where you use large-scale killing of the population," said Saleh Abdel Jawad, a professor of political science at Bir Zeit.
Mr. Rolfes bought "a basic builder's house," he explained, because he liked the center-hall colonial model that he saw.
They are governed according to a British colonial model by a powerful bureaucrat called the political agent, who reports to the president.
Money is an important part of the argument, but the larger question is the Gurkhas' place in a modern country that, they say, still follows the classic colonial model of exploitation and abandonment.
"It's a colonial model in which we supply brute energy and all other kinds of raw materials to the south, but don't get any of the benefits of development and remain poor and backward".
Civil administration, following an anachronistic colonial model of rule by a blend of tribal custom and a cruel and arbitrary system of "political agents" from Pakistan, was always weak.
In post-colonial Africa, soccer has been used for political and commercial purposes all over the continent, and in the end the colonial model has been reborn, in a sense, as Africa's top players flock to overseas outposts in search of riches.
Talking about her characters, London told Guardian Australia: "These children … belong to an era of great change in Australia, a time of reclaiming and forging our own identity, of the influence of waves of immigration from Europe and Asia, of breaking away from the English colonial model".
"They will belong to an era of great change in Australia, a time of reclaiming and forging our own identity, of the influence of waves of immigration from Europe and Asia, of breaking away from the English colonial model, and from the moral attitudes of preceding generations".
Like a lot of prisons in the Philippines, the BBRC is built on the old colonial model: A square of dirt with a big wall around it.
