Dutch ministers blamed Javanese wet nurses for mixed-blood children’s defects

Evidence

Raising and educating Europeans in the Indies will stand in the way of a desirable civilizing of the native and this upbringing will have the result that these children so frequently suckled with the breast milk of Javanese wet nurses along with their own native children, at a more advanced age, will lack any sense of unity with Europeans. They become haughty, imperious, lazy and lascivious. They will learn from their youth to mistreat and denigrate servants; they become, in male adulthood, still greater despots than now is the case with the native rulers themselves. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 571 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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• 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

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• Dutch officials blamed Javanese wet-nursing for corrupting European children raised in the Indies (similarity 0.92)

Broader Connections

• Dutch officials blamed Javanese wet-nursing for corrupting European children raised in the Indies #corroborates (0.90) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 571