THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF IDENTITY

Repatriates from the Netherlands East Indies arrived in a country that had almost no experience of ethnic diversity within its own borders and where anyone who was not white was regarded peculiar and labelled as such. There was little patience for difference and the pressure to assimilate was great....

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1. Verfasser:	Oostindie, Gert
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anthropology Asian studies Behavioral sciences Communities Community identity Cultural history Cultural identity Ethnic identity Ethnicity Ethnography Ethnology European history Group identity Historical methodology Historiography History Human societies India studies Indian culture Multiculturalism National identity National liberation & independence, post-colonialism Political debate Political identity Political processes Political science Politics Psychology Social attitudes Social groups Social psychology Sociology South Asian studies
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Zusammenfassung:	Repatriates from the Netherlands East Indies arrived in a country that had almost no experience of ethnic diversity within its own borders and where anyone who was not white was regarded peculiar and labelled as such. There was little patience for difference and the pressure to assimilate was great. No wonder Tjalie Robinson, in his constant struggle against that pressure to adapt, rendered Indisch identity through crass expressions: ‘Nations are made, ethnic groups are born: theIndocharacter is inherited and has little to do with logic or the thinking of “an orderly state”.’¹ Fifty years later, while such a