Some views from a Singaporean Chinese
I find that a lot of people really confuse us with Chinese. As a Singaporean Chinese, I have never admitted to having any connection with the current Chinese other than the so-called “bloodline”.
I don’t accept them, and I don’t want to be accepted by them, too. I consider myself as a Singaporean, not a Chinese; Part of Southeast Asia, not part of China.
I have become even more convinced of this through my interactions with the Chinese I have come to know.
It makes me feel cold that they are now severely constrained by the policies of the ccp, as evidenced by the zero covid policy they have described.
Also, I’ve found that speaking Chinese in front of Chinese friends doesn’t make them think you’re one of their group (and maybe speaking English will make them think better of you), it just makes them think you’re an outsider. Even if I go to China, I won’t be considered as a companion for speaking Chinese.
Netizens’ comments
- We are Chinese, Singaporean Chinese. If you are born in America then you are American Born Chinese. You can say we are Singaporean First then Chinese. Still no matter how you slice it, fact is we are BORN Chinese. We cannot run away from that.
However just like many millions of Overseas Chinese, we do like or agree with Communist Party of China. Infact even lots of China own local population (mainland Chinese) do not like or agree with CPC.
Anyway we all (overseas Chinese) do not grow up in the same way as local mainland Chinese so not identifying with them is normal.
Chinese history goes thousands of years back. Not agreeing with CPC does not make us less Chinese. - I think we should start using the term PRC in our discourse more often. Being Chinese and being PRC means two very different things.
- Bro, we are Chinese by race, just not Chinese by nationality. I think u confused the two sia…