Dutch colonial rule required the Indies never become settlers’ home

Evidence

The form of colonialism that the Indigenous peoples of North America have experienced was modern from the beginning: the expansion of European corporations, backed by government armies, into foreign areas, with subsequent expropriation of lands and resources. Settler colonialism is a genocidal policy. Native nations and communities, while struggling to maintain fundamental values and collectivity, have from the beginning resisted modern colonialism using both defensive and offensive techniques, including the modern forms of armed resistance of national liberation movements and what now is called terrorism. In every instance they have fought for survival as peoples. The objective of US colonialist authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples—not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide as contrasted with premodern instances of extreme violence that did not have the goal of extinction. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 17 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Did the invaders exterminate the native population, or did they superimpose themselves upon them and become to some extent blended with them? … Thus serious writers contend that the Anglo-Saxon conquest was for the bulk of the British community mainly a change of masters. — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 107 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dutch officials blamed Javanese wet-nursing for corrupting European children raised in the Indies — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 571; Settler colonialism aims to terminate peoples’ existence, not individuals — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 17; Settlers often integrated with the native population instead of exterminating them — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 107 (+3 more)

Related

• Settler colonialism aims to terminate peoples’ existence, not individuals (similarity 0.86)
• Settlers often integrated with the native population instead of exterminating them (similarity 0.82)
• US Indian policy constitutes settler colonialism rather than mere discrimination (similarity 0.81)
• Settler schooling functioned deliberately as deculturalization of native peoples (similarity 0.80)
• Three-quarters of Europeans in the Indies were of partial native origin by 1930 (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Settler colonialism aims to terminate peoples’ existence, not individuals #exemplifies (0.60) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 17
• Settlers often integrated with the native population instead of exterminating them #complicates (0.55) — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 107
• Inlandsche in colonial usage meant home-grown, not indigenous #expands (0.50)