The negative category of the inlander crystallized into the positive identity ‘Indonesian’.

Evidence

From all this, by a sort of sedimentation, inlander – excluding whites, Dutchmen, Chinese, Arabs, Japanese, ‘natives,’ indigènes, and indios – grew ever more specific in content; until, like a ripe larva, it was suddenly transmogrified into the spectacular butterfly called ‘Indonesian’. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 462

Categorization

• XREF: This is the flagship mechanism of the imagined-community toolkit: an imposed administrative category becomes the basis for a liberatory national identity — directly parallel to how exclusionary categories operate in the Islamophobia literature. — connects to: Racial identity arises as a negative product of oppression; Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other; Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not

Related

• Colonial exclusion categories sedimented into the national identity of the colonized (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial category of the native stopped at each colony’s drawn boundary. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other #corroborates (0.85)
• Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not #corroborates (0.80)
• Racial identity arises as a negative product of oppression #corroborates (0.75)