Google: Conrad "breaching the white man's code." Similar jargon, "going native." The "white man's code" is breached when someone from "civilized US or UK" goes native. Probably became a "thing" with Conrad but certainly continued through the Vietnam War.
Conrad's early novels were set in the Malay islands. See geography below.
Joseph Conrad, Adam Gillon, c. 1982.
It's fun to read Chapter Two, "The First Outcasts," in light of Apocalypse Now, and from whence it came, Heart of Darkness, completed in 1899.
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Malaysia -- Indonesia -- New Guinea
Malaysia (basically west)
- peninsula
- includes Singapore
- one island (Bornea): huge
- north 1/3rd: Malaysia
- south 2/3rds: Indonesia
Indonesia (basically east)
- greater Sunda islands: four (4) islands
- Sumatra
- Java
- Borneo
- south 2/3rds
- Sulawesi
- lesser Sunda islands: six (6) main ones
- including Bali
- Moluccas (Spice Islands)
- New Guinea (western half)
New Guinea: large island
- 2nd largest island in the world
- during the colonial period
- Dutch (west) --> following WWII --> incorporated into Indonesia
- long "fight" between Dutch and British; between Indonesia and Malaysia
- Indonesia won with US intervention --> Indonesia
- German (northeast) --> end of WWII --> British --> Papua New Guinea independence (1975)
- British (southeast) --> --------------------> British --> Papua New Guinea independence (1975)
- western half: Indonesia
- eastern half: Papua New Guinea
Bottom line:
- that archipelago --
- almost all Indonesia -- to the east
- Malaysia to the west: the Malay peninsula (Malaysia) and north 1/3rd of Bornea
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