Gender and race can and do intersect. During administration of the Dutch East Indies in Indonesia, the colonial government practiced a racial hierarchy in which:
a. ?those at the lowest rungs of society, such as native peoples, were believed to have the loosest sexual morals.
b. ?those at the highest rungs of society, such as elite Europeans, were believed to have the loosest sexual morals.
c. ?those with the highest sexual morals were believed to be descended from only the native aristocracy.
d. ?commoners had no sexual or moral standing.
ANSWER:
a
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