Mixed-race workers were deemed lazy whether judged native or European in temperament.

Evidence

Partisans on both sides shared the belief that indolence and insolence could produce one another and had to be checked. For some the Inlandsche kinderen were inadequate workers because they were native in temperament and body. For others they were inadequate workers because they were at heart Europeans. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 692

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the double-bind logic of colonial racial classification and connects to the reader’s broader epistemic anxieties/colonial commonsense theme — the same group blamed for being both too native and too European.