East Africa's current population, natives included, was comparable to that of Britain's Australian colony. But if they wanted to thoroughly develop East Africa, this little population was nowhere near enough.
Unlike British colonies such as Canada and Australia, East Africa did not have the Great British Empire standing at its back, basking in the full blaze of its glory.
Thus, although Canada and Australia had small populations, their security was not a problem. Australia especially was surrounded by sea on all sides, with no foreign enemies.
Behind the East African colony stood only Ernst and the Hohenzollern Conglomerate; it could not withstand much turmoil.
The only way to secure control over East Africa was through constant immigration. With more people, its security would naturally become more reliable.
It was like the Ottoman Empire and the Far East. When facing the great powers, they had been forced to cede certain interests, yet with their considerable populations and size, no one could swallow them in a single bite.
India, of course, did not count as a counterexample. National cohesion was not a castle in the air; it truly existed.
To ensure the stability of East Africa's rule, they had to continuously strengthen the immigrants' sense of identity, assimilate them, wear away their distinctive cultures, and ultimately form a cultural identity belonging solely to East Africa.
If they adopted that Western racial-theory nonsense, they would inevitably plant the seeds of disaster. Thus, even when it came to black natives, Ernst did not deny their intelligence.
When Ernst compiled the colony's textbooks, he described black natives as people who could be remolded through education, but whose history and culture made the cost of remolding them extremely high.
Ernst did not say that black people were inferior to other races. But black people did not