Who cares!

What an interesting question! However, most of us probably had no idea that Indonesians live in the Netherlands (or vice versa, perhaps?). This happens where I live, but one parent is from Latin America and the other from the US. Other mixtures happen, too, even if both parents were born in the same country. This it is what happened in my own family and also in my mother's. You feel a part of both groups, yet totally independent of both at the same time . . . unfortunately misunderstood by both on occasion. In some cases, mixed people are rejected. I enjoy the company of people who come from two different cultures, because I think they have a unique outlook on life!

Indisch is a mix between a Dutch (or other European person) and a native to Indonesia (Javanese, Sundanese etc. or mixed with Chinese blood and/or from other Asian countries) during the period that Indonesia was colonized by the Netherlands (Dutch East Indies era) and the next generations that came after the Independence of Indonesia. I think the Indisch people here in the Netherlands will vanish when the first generation (the ones that came here by boat) all have passed away. The second generation here isn't that active (at least not in my family). And the people of my generation mostly don't end up with a Indisch person, Javanese-Suriname, Maluku or Chinese-Indonesian.