Chinese + Indian = Malay ?
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weird...combination
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Originally posted by Tmarcus:
Yeah, my chindian classmate also look like malay. But he has a eurasion surname cause his grandmother is eurasian.. Some people like to make rojak mah..
Cool. Thanks for sharing your experience here. Most of the Chindians I know have Indian names though, but got some mixed ones too. Really complicated.
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Originally posted by Hedgehogix:
That is the dumbest shit i have heard. Chinese do not look like malays nor the opposite. Chinese Singaporeans are chinese and Malay Singaporeans are Malay....shessh.
Your argument is invalid. First of all, I'm not stating that Chindians ARE Malay. Secondly, this isn't a factual debate, since it is scientifically accepted that Malays are an Austronesian race.
Furthermore, Chinese Singaporeans aren't Chinese, they're Singaporean. Malay Singaporeans are also Singaporeans.
Always put your COUNTRY in front of your RACE. It is crucial in the development of your country's society. If all Singaporeans only cared about their race, i.e Chinese, Indian, Malay then Singapore wouldn't be same anymore. Don't forget what happened to Yugoslavia, that piece of history should be a lesson to us all.
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Originally posted by 4sg:
U ask the geneticists n they'll tell u we all originated from 100,000 naked monkeys standing upright, frolicking and rooming around the Africa's savanna.
I don't know about the monkey part, but I agree that all humans came from Africa. The different races and ethnicities are a result of evolution and adaptation to the various environments to which our ancestors migrated to.
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Originally posted by Aero7:
Furthermore, Chinese Singaporeans aren't Chinese, they're Singaporean.
Singaporean chinese are mostly hokkiens, teochews, hakkas, hainanese, henghua and cantonese.
The distribution of Singapore's Chinese speech groups has remained fairly stable since 1900. The largest group were the Hokkien, who came from the area around the trading port of Xiamen (Amoy) in southern Fujian Province. Hokkien traders and merchants had been active in Southeast Asia for centuries before the foundation of Singapore.
In 1980 they made up 43 percent of Singapore's Chinese population.
The second largest group were the Teochiu (sometimes written Teochew), comprising 22 percent of the Chinese population. Their home area is Chaozhou, in Chao'an County in northeastern Guangdong Province, which has as its major port the city of Shantou (Swatow). Chaozhou is immediately south of the Hokkien-speaking area of Fujian, and both Teochiu and Hokkien are closely related languages of the Minnan group, mutually intelligible to native speakers after sufficient practice.
Hainanese, from the island of Hainan south of Guangdong, made up 8 percent of the population. Hainan was settled by people from southern Fujian who arrived by sea, and Hainanese is a Minnan language whose native speakers can understand Hokkien or Teochiu with relatively little difficulty after practice.
Speakers of Minnan languages thus made up 72 percent of the Chinese population, for whom Hokkien served as a lingua franca, the language of the marketplace.
The third most numerous group were Cantonese, from the lowlands of central Guangdong Province around the port city of Guangzhou (Canton). They made up 16 percent of the Chinese population. Hakka, a group scattered through the interior hills of southern China and generally considered migrants from northern China, were 7 percent. Other Chinese call them "guest people", and the term Hakka (Kejia in pihyih romanization) is Cantonese for "guest families."
There also were small numbers of people from the coastal counties of northern Fujian, called Hokchia, Hokchiu, and Henghua, whose northern Fujian (Minbei) languages are quite distinct from those of southern Fujian and seldom spoken outside of Fujian.
A final, residual category of Chinese were the "Three Rivers People," who came from the provinces north of Guangdong and Fujian. This group included people from northern and central China, and more specifically those provinces sharing the word "river" (jiang) in their names--Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang.
They would have spoken southern Mandarin dialects or the Wu languages of Shanghai, Ningbo, and Hangzhou. In 1980 they were 1.7 percent of the Chinese population.
http://countrystudies.us/singapore/16.htm
Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations
http://www.sfcca.sg/?action-viewnews-itemid-832
Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
Singaporean chinese are mostly hokkiens, teochews, hakkas, hainanese, henghua and cantonese.
Yes, if you mean by race/ ethnicity, of course.
Still, so long as you're born in Singapore, and adopt Singaporean culture, regardless of whether you're Hokkien, Teochew, Hakka, Hainanese, Henghua or Cantonese, you're still a Singaporean, or Chinese- Singaporean.
I honestly dislike people who claim that they '' belong '' to China/ India because they are Chinese/ Indian born in Singapore/ Malaysia. Seriously, have some pride, self- worth and dignity. Your country needs you. Say no to xenocentrism.
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Originally posted by Aero7:
Seriously, have some pride, self- worth and dignity.
That's why I want to annihilate english and exterminate it from Singapore and promote culture of local ethnic groups.
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srry
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
That's why I want to annihilate english and exterminate it from Singapore and promote culture of local ethnic groups.
Don't know if that will help though, Singapore capitalises on just that. Ang Mohs would much rather invest in Singapore over Hong Kong because of the open- arms policy. Singapore roars globalisation.
Well, I dunno, I'm not well- versed in politics. You could be right.
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Originally posted by Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1):
srry
i dun mistake a indian
they dun look alikeI'm sorry but I'm having trouble understanding your words. No sarcasm intended.
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Originally posted by Aero7:
I'm sorry but I'm having trouble understanding your words. No sarcasm intended.
indians skin colour - darker
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Originally posted by Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1):
indians skin colour - darker
understood?Oh, okay, that's true. But have you seen any Chindians recently ? Most of them are fair, caramel, light brown skin.
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Why Chindians not Indchi?
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Originally posted by mancha:
Why Chindians not Indchi?
because indian father chinese mother so is called chindians
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So if Chinese father Indian mother call what?
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Originally posted by mancha:
So if Chinese father Indian mother call what?
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Originally posted by mancha:
So if Chinese father Indian mother call what?
Felicia Cheng d/o Govinsamy -
or Leelasamy d/o Bak Kut Teh
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Originally posted by mancha:
So if Chinese father Indian mother call what?
Chindian la
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This way Chindian, that way also Chindian.
Not fair leh.
Btw, Is that the reason?
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But if mother chinese and father indian, it will be IndoChine
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Originally posted by mancha:
This way Chindian, that way also Chindian.
Not fair leh.
Btw, Is that the reason?
Chindian is actually not a legitimate word, it's just something people in Singapore and Malaysia came up with to name the specific group of people with parents of Indian and Chinese ancestry. I guess there is still no correct definition of a Chindian yet... the number of Chindians today are really small.
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Originally posted by Aero7:
Chindian is actually not a legitimate word, it's just something people in Singapore and Malaysia came up with to name the specific group of people with parents of Indian and Chinese ancestry. I guess there is still no correct definition of a Chindian yet... the number of Chindians today are really small.
who cares?
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Originally posted by angel7030:
But if mother chinese and father indian, it will be IndoChine
Indochinese refers to people of Northern Thailand, Northern Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos.
I don't know about IndoChine.
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Originally posted by Siliconchip:
who cares?
People who care, care. People who don't care, don't care. Nobody's forcing you to care.
Personally I enjoy studying a little sociology. It helps give you a better understanding of our modern society. It helps reduce racism too, when you realise that every culture and race has its pros and cons.