Editing Model minority (section)

===Integration===
In the 1990s and early 21st century the Netherlands was confronted with ethnic tension in a now [[Multiculturalism|multi-cultural]] society. Ethnic tensions, rooted in the perceived lack of social integration and rise of crime rates of several ethnic minorities, climaxed with the murders of politician [[Pim Fortuyn]] in 2002 and film director [[Theo van Gogh (film director)|Theo van Gogh]] in 2004. In 2006 statistics show that in [[Rotterdam]], the second largest city in the country, close to 50% of the inhabitants were of foreign descent. The Indo community however is considered the best integrated ethnic and cultural minority in the Netherlands. Statistical data compiled by the CBS shows that Indos belong to the group with the lowest crime rates in the country.<ref name="van Amersfoort & van Niekerk 2006">{{cite journal |last1=van Amersfoort |first1=Hans |last2=van Niekerk |first2=Mies |title=Immigration as a Colonial Inheritance: Post-Colonial Immigrants in the Netherlands, 1945–2002 |journal=Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |date=April 2006 |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=323–346 |doi=10.1080/13691830600555210 |s2cid=216142383 }}</ref>

A CBS study of 1999 reveals that of all foreign born groups living in the Netherlands, only the Indos have an average income similar to that of citizens born in the Netherlands. Job participation in government, education and health care is similar as well. Another recent CBS study, among foreign born citizens and their children living in the Netherlands in 2005, shows that on average, Indos own the largest number of independent enterprises. A 2007 CBS study shows that already over 50% of first-generation Indos have married a native born Dutch person. A percentage that increased to 80% for the second generation.<ref name="autogenerated1">[http://www.imes.uva.nl/research/IMESsecondthirdgenerationsDutchEurasians.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817070552/http://www.imes.uva.nl/research/IMESsecondthirdgenerationsDutchEurasians.html|date=August 17, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNo0ZYamYsUC&q='Indisch+is+een+gevoel' |title='Indisch is een gevoel': de tweede en derde generatie Indische Nederlanders – Marlene de Vries – Google Boeken |access-date=2015-02-24|isbn=9789089641250 |last1=Vries |first1=Marlene de |year=2009 |publisher=Amsterdam University Press }}</ref> One of the first and oldest Indo organisations that supported the integration of Indo repatriates into the Netherlands is the ''Pelita foundation''.<ref>[http://www.pelita.nl/cms/publish/content/showpage.asp?themeid=1] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031234451/http://www.pelita.nl/cms/publish/content/showpage.asp?themeid=1|date=October 31, 2013}}</ref>

Although Indo repatriates,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/home/default.htm |title=CBS – Home |publisher=Cbs.nl |date=2015-02-16 |access-date=2015-02-24}}</ref> being born overseas, are officially registered as Dutch citizens of foreign descent, their Eurasian background puts them in the Western sub-class instead of the Non-Western (Asian) sub-class.

Two factors are usually attributed to the essence of their apparently seamless assimilation into Dutch society: Dutch citizenship and the amount of 'Dutch cultural capital', in the form of school attainments and familiarity with the Dutch language and culture, that Indos already possessed before migrating to the Netherlands.<ref name="van Amersfoort & van Niekerk 2006"/>