Scientists in Singapore complete DNA study on Peranakans 

That is true there are roughly 6 million peranakan in Indo But their culture is not well preserve because of ignorant and pressure to assimilate by the Indo government You see peranakan make the majority of Chinese in Indo specially in Java So there is little incentive to preserve since everybody is peranakan But the Malay and Singapore peranakan is minority among much larger Chinese body So as defensive measure they try to maintain and hang on the culture that is why you see peranakan organization like gunong sayang or peranakan association of Singapore. But that does not mean there is no peranakan culture in Indo Before Suharto there are still lively peranakan drama group, magazine(Star weekly), newspaper Seng Po, Keng Po. Our own cartoon character "Put On" or cerita doeloe " See Jin Kwee" Cheng Tang or other classic Chinese story translated. Large body of Peranakan literature that is sadly now defunct, Kroncong composer etc Sadly many leading peranakan family left Indonesia

@@Ragingwire1 so what is the main difference between peranakan and Chinese Singaporean?

@@prabunusantara simply put, peranakan chinese are the chinese who migrated to southeast asia longer ago and had time to develop their culture over generations, they migrated here before raffles reached singapore in 1812. Chinese singaporeans in general are from later immigrations mostly from the early to mid1900's.

​@anthropolicious n Singaporean Chinese are Chinese who migrated during the colonial era as well as immigrants from Chinese Indonesia since 98

@@prabunusantarathe main difference is Peranakan come to nusantara during 14 centuries and Chinese/Indian immigrants come to Nusantara during 19 centuries.

Not necessarily mixed with Malay. Local people at that time but not necessarily Malay.

Amer Asyraf92 Benzi project!!!

"Sounds-o like a state-o of mind to me"

Ya. Not Malay but local means there could be many different ethnicities including some aborigines.

But she said she is peranakan herself and she looked like one too. Once you are peranakan the dialect distinction disappear

Hang lipo was never mention in Chinese chronicle So the idea that peranakan is derive from her retinue is far from proven. I bet most peranakan are the product of 18th and 19th century union of Hokkien trader and female slave from Non muslim tribe of Indonesia and Bali

@@Ragingwire1 I completely agree. Very unlikely that 1400 peranakan would sustain such sinitic traits for 600+ years. Moreover, the population of the first migrants would be very small, and most probably not significant or exclusive enough to resist assimilation into Malay identity. Nowadays there are genetic tests such as 23andme where you can actually trace which generation of ancestor were the first peranakan.

@@Ragingwire1 most are from 16-18th century

@@Ragingwire1”Hang” is just a starter name for “Notable” prefix name for Malay culture. Some people Said her name maybe Lee Foo/Li Fu maybe something like that because there’s another notable name in Malay culture that we put “Hang” for example Hang Tuah (Malay Warrior), Hang Jebat (Malay warrior), Hang Nadim (Hang Jebat little son who is very clever and lives is Temasek (Singapore) but get killed by a Sultan). Maybe Hang Lipo is a name that Malay culture created. Besides, Malay also always change the name when another person becoming and join Malay culture. For example Parameswara from Srivijaya kingdome is a hindu then change name to Sultan Iskandar Shah after convert into islam. We still need to do more research about this because a lot of Malay manuscripts have been stolen during the invasion of 14 centuries. Based on documentation, there’s only 5% of Malay manuscripts have been studied and 95% are in the others country for example Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and the Leiden University Library, are known for their significance and richness. The KITLV in Leiden is renowned for its vast collection of Malay manuscripts. It holds over 3,000 Malay manuscripts, making it one of the largest collections outside of Southeast Asia. The collection covers a wide range of subjects, including literature, history, religion, and law. Also in the Leiden University Library. The Leiden University Library, also located in Leiden, houses an extensive collection of Malay manuscripts. It contains around 1,000 Malay manuscripts, including literary works, historical texts, and documents related to Islamic scholarship. Some said Malaysia try to negotiate with them to access the manuscript and want to digitalise the manuscript. A lot of process and money needed. Some theory said there are 25,000 total manuscripts. This maybe can answer a lot of unsolve mystery, myths, legend for a Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia can become a game changer. After all this is our heritage and tells who we are really is. The mystery of Puteri Hang Lipo, The mystery of Hang Tuah and many more. We need a solid proof for documentation. Sedihkan bila kena jajah selama 400+ tahun. 😢

i cant even speak the ‘malay way of malay speaking ‘

Different Malay dialects. They have a special dialect. My grandma spoke it with her siblings.

Mr Nash baba nyonya

i see ur point although i dont think it is 'racist'. peranakans are simply early settlers of the nusantara region before the influx of migrants from china and india in the late 19th to early 20th century. since there were no deliberate attempt to colonize this region, early chinese and indian settlers' population was small enough that the circumstance encouraged assimilation rather establishing their own 'colonies', it stayed that way for a long time. over the course of hundreds of years, it is expected that intermarriages happened.

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