With the French colonization of Indochina, it was inevitable that interracial unions, or the metissage, would occur between the French and the Indochinese. This was seen as a 'threat to white prestige' and 'moral decay' of Europeans. The rejection of 'mixed bloods' or metis portrays theories of both racial hierarchy and European superiority (Stoler, 517). This post aims to explore the questions of how the history of colonization affected the perception of the modern Indo-European metis and their exclusion in society, based mainly off Stoler's Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia . The metissage in Indochina changed political, legal, and social institutions, as well as marginalized the metis as an inferior social group and a threat to the prestige of Europeans (Stoler, 515). ("The Formation of French Indochina") History of French Indochina The colonization of Cochin-China, Annam, Tonkin, Cambodia, Kwangchowan, a...