In itself the wealth of white colonials in the East is not a new story; countless writers have taken us to the posh homes and hill stations of the British raj.

We don't want to give our money back to white colonials.

Among Saint-Domingue's 40,000 white colonials in 1789, European-born Frenchmen monopolized administrative posts.

He has an uncanny ability to get inside the heads and hearts of Kenyans, from the corrupt ruling Kikuyus to the proud, doomed Masai to the embittered white colonials.

He fights with, and then kicks out, two arrogant black African diplomats with the fancy manners of white colonials.

I am taking my usual walk around a neighborhood not far from my apartment, a pleasant neighborhood of white colonials, privet hedges and flagstone front walks.

In an earlier project, "Facing Forward," Ms. Tan explored the ways white colonials had viewed natives of Papua New Guinea.

Groups of white colonials destroyed chapels that housed slave congregations.

(Sometimes I think this is what is really meant by a "dream house": the recumbent ranches dreaming of California, the colonnaded white colonials dreaming of Tara.)