I'm Singaporean first, Peranakan Chinese second.Originally posted by Mitsubishi hater:Are the chinese disporsa truly hanese or chinese?
your ic is listed as perarakan ya?Originally posted by LazerLordz:I'm Singaporean first, Peranakan Chinese second.
The IC does not list specific ethnic sub groups. Caucasians are just Caucasian, not Irish, German etc.Originally posted by Mitsubishi hater:your ic is listed as perarakan ya?
I assume your "Hanese" is referring to "Han Chinese" or "han4 ren2" as in mandarin? Very hard to be define if one use includes "truly" in the definition.Originally posted by Mitsubishi hater:Are the chinese disporsa truly hanese or chinese?
Originally posted by Gun:i think the word 'ethnic chinese' is not well define, maybe it is the outside world common expression of ppl from china/PRC.
I assume your "Hanese" is referring to "Han Chinese" or "han4 ren2" as in mandarin? Very hard to be define if one use includes "truly" in the definition.
If one uses the population ratio of China as reference, then over 90% of the oversea Chinese are of Han or ethnic Chinese.
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But how does that relate to the thread?Originally posted by LazerLordz:I'm Singaporean first, Peranakan Chinese second.
haha, thank for the write up,Originally posted by Gun:From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Chinese
"...Overseas Chinese is ambiguous as to whether it can refer
a) to any of the ethnic groups that live in China or
b) refers specifically to the Han Chinese ethnicity, narrowly defined."
IMO, this isn't a definitive authority in classifying what or who is a "overseas chinese". I think that partly reflect the adaptability nature of this people as they migrated and gets assimilated in the host culture over time even if that means lossing the language and naming roots etc, one can still find traces of earlier Chinese migrant in each corner of the world.