Do you consider yourself Chinese, if you werent born in China but your parents were?

of course i would consider myself chinese... i'm not white becuase i was born in canada

 

i was born and grew up in Malaysia...for nationality, we are Malaysian..but as for race, i am always a chinese...im simply yellow outside n inside

 

I consider my self asian and chinese, but i also consider my self american. So im a chinese american and a descendant of an asian

 

I consider myself Chinese but Chinese-Australian.

 

If i'm not chinese then what am I? o_o I don't know my race.. ZOMG. =o
Of course i'm chinese although I wasn't born in China. =P. =o Lawl xD

 

I will consider myself as chinese but my nationality is not if I wasn't born in china...

 

it's funny how my friends brought up this topic a few weeks ago.. I definitely think a person is Chinese even if they weren't born in China. like many of you said its in you're genes..

 

it doesnt matter where ur born i guess....but who ur parents are?

 

ABC ! (Australian born CHINESE) =D
so of course i consider myself CHINESE !

 

Well for me it's harder cuz my parents are born in viet (so they know viet) I'm born in Canada && the WEIRD part is they taught me chinese. Soo I consider myself half chinese half viet. BUT my friend also made a good point is that if you speak a language fluently, it doesn't mean you're that race. So... >.<

 

I definitely consider myself Chinese, although I wasn't born in China but my parents were.

 

I was born in America, but my family is from China! I definitely consider myself Chinese!

 

i live in singapore and i consider myself chinese of course

 

you are as chinese as much as u embrace it. u could be bon in china and deny being chinese. doesnt make much sense but thats how i feel

 

although i was born in uk and i'm part chinese part vietnamese, i still consider myself as chinese

 

im half chinese and half white...and born in america but i speak better canto than some of my full chinese friends =]....i consider myself chinese.

 

Yes i consider myself to be chinese, i speak chinese at home. and try to be more chiense and not white.

 

All Taiwanese people hold Taiwanese passport (=Zhong Hua Min Guo passport) and are therefore not Chinese nationals as they don't hold Peoples' Republic of China passport.

I think it is better to call ourselves Hua Ren (Hua yun in Cantonese) and Han Tribe! We call "Chinatown" Tang Ren Street..

 

I bet a traditional Chinese or Vietnamese person will be convinced that you are English because you think English and act more English than Chinese nor Vietnamese! I had thought that I was Chinese until I went to university and met some real Chinese...they think we are not Chinese really in heart! Put it this way, you went to school to study Shakespeare,Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy etc. and what do you know about the great books of literature of China! -scooter

 

Wrong. There is no such thing as a "Taiwanese passport." Taiwanese passport != Republic of China passport. The Republic of China refers to the territories inherited from the Qing Dynasty - NOT simply Taiwan. It is still a Chinese Republic after all, therefore all citizens of the ROC are still Chinese citizens.

Both citizens from the People's Republic of China and Republic of China are Chinese citizens. Technically, the civil war has not concluded.

Uhh...no, Hua Ren = Zhong Guo Ren. Hua Ren, like Zhong Guo Ren are synonymous with each other in that both can refer to people of ethnic minorities as well as Han Chinese. And only Cantonese (correct me if I'm wrong) call Chinatown "Tang Ren Jie," everyone else calls it "Zhong Guo Cheng."