Three-quarters of Europeans in the Indies were of partial native origin by 1930

Evidence

Statistics collected during the 1930 Indies census estimated that three-quarters of those classified as European were of partial native origin. But this still does not speak to the destitution into which many people fell, or to the numbers of European men that completely cut their ties to their own children and companions who were swept back into the native quarters and bore no legally recognized European connection or trace. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 896 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Late colonial Java’s European population grew explosively to 300,000 by the 1930s; Recognition by a European alone conferred racial status in the Indies; Three-quarters of colonial-era classified Europeans had partial native origin — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 896 (+4 more)

Related

• Three-quarters of colonial-era classified Europeans had partial native origin (similarity 0.89)
• Three-quarters of Dutch Indies people classed European had partial native ancestry (similarity 0.86)
• Dutch officials blamed Javanese wet-nursing for corrupting European children raised in the Indies (similarity 0.82)
• Recognition by a European alone conferred racial status in the Indies (similarity 0.79)
• Dutch colonial rule required the Indies never become settlers’ home (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Three-quarters of colonial-era classified Europeans had partial native origin #corroborates (0.95) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 896
• The Indies’ European population grew from 4,000 in 1815 to over 300,000 by 1930. #expands (0.60)
• Dutch officials blamed Javanese wet-nursing for corrupting European children raised in the Indies #exemplifies (0.35) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 571
• Dutch colonial rule required the Indies never become settlers’ home #qualifies (0.30)
• Epistemic confusion itself characterized colonial governance across the Indies #complicates (0.25)