I am Macanese：20 years on, Macao retains its distinct mix 

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@@belamaquista1220 Do you know if there’s a Macanese community in Beijing??

This is interesting, my girlfriend is part Macanese and did one of those DNA heritage tests and it came back Chinese but was shocked that there was no Portuguese but in fact a very small part Indian!

@ianmann64 Maybe so, her surname is António! But I was wrong, there was a tiny bit of Portuguese, however the breakdown was 39% Chinese, 4% South & East Indian and only 1% Portuguese! Obviously the kit is only an estimate, but it's interesting nonetheless.

@ianmann64 They changed their names to avoid Chinese government persecution. For a long time during the Ching Dynasty, it was illegal for the Chinese to convert to Christianity.

@ianmann64 I am a Hongkonger, too. The British and the Portuguese have totally different concepts of race and ethnicity, as well as policies towards assimilation in their colonies.

Um forte abraço de Macau! 😁

Why brazil

@@puggyk4220 Brasil is Portuguese and my Country

Brasil não tem nada haver com Macau deixa disso palhaço. 🇵🇹

@@georginamusalem7993 Já ouviu falar em diáspora portuguesa, burra?

@@georginamusalem7993estude pelo menos o mínimo de história por favor.

No that means you're a Peranakan

@@goodputin4324 I mom is born in Macao not Malaysia

Yes

she looks like actress Coney Reyes. If Im not mistaken, Coney Reyes comes from a Filipino Mestizo family.

@@karlos_infamous yes, Spanish blood and Spanish last name

Obviously???

@@aliceridley2016 not all macaneses speak such fluent Mandarin.

@ianmann64 Her mother tongue is cantonese but she speaks good mandarín

@UCbXk2LPXpZexG4kelk5tm9A no, they Dont speak portugueses. Only 100 people speak a Portuguese creole language called patua. Maybe the old people speak Portuguese but not the new generations

You have to speak good mandarin to server Chinese mainland gamblers LOL

That's it. I think many commentators are not aware of these distinctions. They thought that Macanese = anybody who is from Macau, which is not true.

The name they would be called would be their birth name, wouldn't it be? But joke aside, the label used would depend on too many factors to have a established "rule", but one of the most influential would probably be the time they spent in Macau and how much they merged in the community? So it would be a question of individual path but also if they, as a group, had some kind of thing that distinguished them more from the general population. So i don't doubt that many were simply called as Portuguese (in Cantonese?) by the locals.

Don't think that was really a racist question. Don't take this in a wrong way.

Chinese people are pretty racist and nationalistic in general. If people thought Western Colonialism is bad god help the world if the Chinese ever take over

Frankly speaking, as someone from Canton, travel to Macau quite frequently, and have lots of Macanese friends and families, I've never heard that before. I would be interested to see some sources.

@ianmann64 : wrong! Her mom is Macanese! And her dad is Basque Spanish!

@ianmann64 : HER MOM IS MACANESE!!!! Macanese ancestry is a mix of Han Chinese and White Portuguese!

Except that they don't eat pagpag like Filipinos.

@@atengku9660 lol 😂

Yes

Exactly!

Nope

Portuguesa music sounds like that sometimes i didn’t know too til I went to a portugués/Brazil festival

Both

Macanese is multiethnic and multilingual. I was speaking in putonghua (Chinese) heehee

@@belamaquista1220 Your Putonghua is really really good! Rooting for you gals/guys to be able to preserve Patua into the next generation!

@@xygog2408 Thank you!

有分別㗎on9

是有分別的。葡人，是葡萄牙人，以葡萄牙為家、為根。土生葡人，是在澳門經歷了多代跨族裔通婚的後代，有獨特的生活文化、傳統、語言和飲食，以澳門為家和根。這樣應該能弄明白了;)

This is Macanese, we speak mandarin, English, Portuguese, patua and Cantonese

@@Joel-nt9qc mandarin for real…… most of the macanese i meet don’t even speak portugese patua english and mandarin they only speak canto

@@mymother3650 im a macanese myself and i speak those languages, some dont because their parents may not have taught them how to speak it

Lol.. yup, heehee.. Macanese is a polygot community, of course different educational and cultural background may have influences on the languages spoken by different Macanese.

@@belamaquista1220 nah most of the macanese i met they can only speak cantonese. Their English sux

Wtf

雖然與娘惹不同，不過土生土語中也有這詞，寫成Nhonha，意指少女、女士，因為不少的土生葡人祖先是來自馬六甲的唷。

It's Kristang, stupid. Baba Nyonya is Pre-Islamic Malay + Han Chinese.

thats just not true at all! if anything, they mixed with indian people a lot more.