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SMU Assistant Professor of Political Science Dean Dulay noted in a new paper that nations worldwide have toppled their colonial edifices, attempting to distance themselves from the past. He also noted the strange phenomenon where other countries appreciate their former colonisers, with their symbols still found in state capitals. He explored why some countries appreciate while others reject their former colonisers. Meanwhile, Asst Prof Dulay will be extending his research into other facets of the colonial experience. He is currently working on a project that tries to explain how founding nationalisms explain positive and negative perceptions versus former colonisers in the present.