Colonial category terms could mark several distinct groups at once

Evidence

Sometimes the term Inlandsche kinderen was used for those Europeans born in the Indies (as the term los hijos del pais was used in the 46 Ian Hacking, “Two Kinds of ‘New Historicism’ for Philosophers,” New Literary History 21 (2) (Winter 1990): 343-64, 359. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 229