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^ Yes, basically the whole upper-class of the Philippines are Tornatras (Spanish, Chinese, native mixed) The recent Chinese like Henry Sy are just Chinese though.
Well, a lot of them are mixed...would you identify the current prime minister as Chinese? I think she and her brother look pretty Chinese. Most people in Bangkok have Chinese ancestry. Also Phuket and a few other places outside Bangkok.
Yes they're not that uncommon...I think it's largely because they're still culturally quite different, and Indians are conservative.
A lot of the Filipinos I've met here look Chinese, some don't, but quite a few do. Maybe they're the wealthier ones. Like Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos look pretty Chinese.
It's not ironic because those countries were more about assimilation (especially Thailand), whereas the Malays and Chinese have always been pretty separate and some Malays want Malaysia for the Malays. Also few Chinese have converted to Islam in Malaysia.
Chinese community claims that Ferdinand Marcos was the illigitimate son of a Chinese Judge, Judge Chua thereby making him half Chinese by blood.
Uhhh Chinese and Indian marriages only 0.7% of marriages in Singapore. I don't expect it to be different in Malaysia since the Chinese population is quite big at 30%, though not as big as in Singapore.
Hmm I beg to differ. I'm not too acquainted with Korean celebs so I could be wrong, but the ones I've seen tend look like northerners with larger eyes. Eye size itself barely affects what you look like. IMO northerners look like this:
Southerners:
Yeah I know the difference between the 2 isn't as clear as night and day, but that's only because there's a lot of overlapping between the 2 and southern Chinese are diverse. Those from the far south would fit above pics better.
I would argue that the 'ethnic Chinese' in Thailand are really ethnic Thais, since they only speak Thai, mostly practise Theravada Buddhism, have Thai names.etc. It's a different situation in Malaysia where many still speak Chinese and practice Chinese culture.
Except that the word "ethnic" is basically used to represent bloodline instead of culture.
It's well known a lot of Thais, Vietnamese and other Southeast Asians but more of these two in particular are fond of claiming that either they personally or people in their country have part Chinese ancestry, but the Chinese do not feel the same reciprocity and feel disgusted.
Those 2 do have *some* Chinese ancestry . Why else would they look less SEA compared to other SEAs like the Malays and Cambodians?
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Maybe to you but not to anybody else. I don't know why you persist in shoving it down others' throats, it's like you believe if you force your way through enough, you'd convince others.
I don't know which, I know they are the same race as Malays, they only have different religions and languages today because of having different colonial masters.
Stop pushing your agenda of southeast Asians "PASSING OFF" (lol) or having 1.435757532 per cent of Southern Chinese blood. Southern Chinese are what you see in Hong Kong, Singapore, Guangzhou, Taiwan, Nicholas Tze, Fann Wong from Singapore, Gillian Chung. I wish these Southeast Asian agenda pushers quit trying so hard since it's so very obvious. Southern Chinese is NOT tanned. Shorter, maybe. The skin color is the same. Go to Hong Kong yourself. This is a southern Chinese girl (Singapore). Fann Wong, Top Singapore Actress
This is another (Hong Kong) Gillian CHUNG Yan-Tung | Zhong Xintong | Chinese Movie Database The look is VERY Chinese, there's NO mistaking it. An American of southern Chinese descent Jeremy Lin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marcos Jr do look Southern Chinese, whats your problem? And yes Gillian Chung looks southern, can probably pass in Northern Vietnam.
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Well, a lot of them are mixed...would you identify the current prime minister as Chinese? I think she and her brother look pretty Chinese. Most people in Bangkok have Chinese ancestry. Also Phuket and a few other places outside Bangkok.
Yes they're not that uncommon...I think it's largely because they're still culturally quite different, and Indians are conservative.
A lot of the Filipinos I've met here look Chinese, some don't, but quite a few do. Maybe they're the wealthier ones. Like Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos look pretty Chinese.
It's not ironic because those countries were more about assimilation (especially Thailand), whereas the Malays and Chinese have always been pretty separate and some Malays want Malaysia for the Malays. Also few Chinese have converted to Islam in Malaysia.
I agreed that most of Chinese ethnic in Thailand are generally concentrated in Center Thailand, with reasonable number in Southern Thailand.
Ethnic group
75% Dai/Tai
14% Chinese (mostly concentrat in Center of Thailand and some number in Southern Thailand)
7% Khmer
3% Malay
1% Minorities(hill tribe)
Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/th.html
Northern Thailand = 95% Dai/Tai ethnic with about 5% of population are hill tribe.
Upper Eastern Thailand = 85-90% of population are Dai/Tai ethnic with about 10-15% of Mon-Khmer ethnic.
Center Thailand = 80% are Chinese/partly Chinese ethnic, another 20% are something else (Dai/Tai,Mon-Khmer,Malay)
Lower Eastern Thailand = 70% are Mon-Khmer ethnic(Vietnamese/Khmer) with about 30% are Dai/Tai ethnic.
Southern Thailand = 50% are Malay/partly Malay ethnic with about 35% Chinese ethnic and 15% of Dai/Tai ethnic.
Northern Laos = 90% of people in the area are Dai/Tai ethnic, another 10% are minority.
Center Laos = 70% of the area are Dai/Tai ethnic, another 30% are Mon-Khmer ethnic (Vietnamese, Khmer).
Southern Laos = 30% of the area are Dai/Tai ethnic while around 70% are Mon-Khmer ethnic (Khmer,Vietnamese).
95% of the area are Dai/Tai ethnic, another 5% are something else like hill tribe or Chinese.
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. Why else would they look less SEA compared to other SEAs like the Malays and Cambodians?
