my parents are born in hk and im also was born there......i moved to canada at like the age of 1 but i still consider myself chinese
Yes, I consider myself to be Chinese. I was born in Vietnam, but my dad was born in China and my mom's parents were born in China also.
Re: Do you consider yourself Chinese, if you werent born in China but your parents we I consider myself as Chinese. The black hair shows it too (I live in Europe).
Of course I'm chinese! My parents were born in Hong kong, but I was born in the US..still, I'm 100% Chinese
uhm, say your ethnicity is 100% chinese but you were born in africa. you don't speak/read/write chinese, but you look chinese. are you african or chinese? :/ there's an obvious answer (if you think the other way you're insane -_-), but i guess overall it depends on how you think.
^ Do you mean you personally? I think it's a personal choice of course. But I know some people whose parents are from Hong Kong, but were missionairies or had jobs with the government, and so they had to live in South America or Africa, and therefore their kids were born there. But they still consider themselves 100% Chinese. I think in the end, it depends how much that person values themselves as Chinese. I know lots of people who deny the fact that they are Chinese because they are born in a country like Canada or the US. Lots of overseas Chinese don't see the significance of their ethnic culture.
er "CHINESE" isn't onli meant for ppl born in CHINA .. why so many idiots alwayz get this wrong.. esp those angmohs in aus also.. juz bcoz i'm from malaysia, they thot i'm malay.. walao.. my granparents from china.. and i'm CHINESE.. MALAYSIAN CHINESE.. pissing me off.. can't stand idiots thinkin "chinese" is for CHINA onli..
i was born in Canada and have only been to China twice in my life. i still consider myself Chinese because i communicate with my relatives in Chinese and go to Chinese school.
whoa.. i think dim8sum just put "born in China" for simplicity. you don't expect someone to say "born in any country that has people speaking Chinese", do you? i mean, i understand how you feel. people constantly assume my family's from HK just because we speak Cantonese, and not Guangzhou (which can really piss me off sometimes), but just chill...
I consider myself an American Born Chinese, not fully Chinese, not fully American. I believe that to identify oneself with a certain ethnicity, one is typical of that culture, their practices, and their beliefs. For me, I have traits of being Chinese when it comes to academics, work ethics, taste in food, taste in entertainment. However I also have American traits when it comes to dating, relationship with women, career advancemnt, ideas about how to have fun, and how to dress. So to say I'm Chinese is not completely right, but to say I'm American is also incorrect. I am an American Chinese, with the best traits from both cultures all mixed in one! Yeah!
i totally think that im chinese even though i was born in UK as my parents were born in china and its your heritage (i think) anyway your parents background which is your background
Thanks ms-jojo you know where im coming from. But yeh aussiekid, you raise a valid point (but no need to go off on one...), so why not discuss it further. So I guess at what point is someone considered chinese? Are they chinese as long as one of their ancestors has chinese blood? As long as they speak chineses (but some white people can speak mandarin fluently, so are they chinese? I guess as long as you have chinese blood, i would say your chinese. Anyways the purpose of this thread was not to say who is chinese and who is not, but to hear what people personally believe they are.
By your definition then, if a person has one grandparent who is Chinese, the other 3 Japanese, and his own parents are Japanese as well; he was born & raised in Japan. Could he call himself Chinese, since by definition he has 1/4 Chinese blood in him? That would be a hard pressed claim...
