jellygel
Junior Member
50% French-German & 50% Chinese
Posts: 148
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Post by jellygel on Feb 9, 2006 21:08:14 GMT -5
My dad is fully french with german origin and my mother is a chinese from vietnam who want in france in the 70's.
I was born in Munchen (Germany) and then i moved 3 years later in paris suburbs where i still live!
People here in france are often amazed by this ( u know, french buut half chinese and born in germany!)
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Post by داود on Feb 10, 2006 16:47:06 GMT -5
"Huh?!?! She's Asian, but she's tall -- and her hair (stutter) itt- it- it's not BLACK and STRAIGHT!?!? She's a mutant, because that it sooo impossible" I think even full Asians who were born and raised in non-Asian countries tend to be taller than Asians from Asia.
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Thir Jiang Li
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1/2 Norwegian, 1/4 Singapore-Chinese and 1/4 Singapore-Filipino
Posts: 190
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Post by Thir Jiang Li on Feb 10, 2006 21:45:41 GMT -5
My dad is a full Norwegian viking...
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Post by jenbrook on Feb 11, 2006 5:02:07 GMT -5
Do Brits count? My dad's family originally come from scotland (though i have a great grandmother who is welsh).. But he was born in Germany and grew up in England. My ancestors were the Normans haha. I think they're french?
I think thats pretty 'European'. I wouldnt know how else to describe my dad.
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Post by Micha on Feb 11, 2006 5:22:00 GMT -5
Haha my Dad was born in Germany but refuses to believe he is anything but British. Which is why I sometimes wonder if he's Prince Charles' long lost brother....
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Post by jaehee on Jan 2, 2007 3:26:06 GMT -5
well my was born and raised in Spain, but I was born and raised in the U.S.- so I don't know if that counts. I do spend about three months a year in europe...
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Szymon Von Zalyn
Full Member
50% Polish of Prussian descent, 25% Italian, 25% kalmyk, but 100% English.
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Post by Szymon Von Zalyn on Jan 29, 2007 6:00:45 GMT -5
My father is Italian but I was born in England but raised in Chile but left when Pinochet came to power.
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Post by catgirl on Jan 29, 2007 6:42:13 GMT -5
Mummy is half norwegian and half britsh, and basically grew up in norway, and spent some time in britain, london I guess. My maternal grandfather is full norwegian.
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Post by cheapmonday on Feb 5, 2007 10:02:51 GMT -5
Well, my dad is full Swedish.. born and raised in Sweden..
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Post by jenbrook on Feb 9, 2007 4:32:14 GMT -5
Haha my Dad was born in Germany but refuses to believe he is anything but British. Which is why I sometimes wonder if he's Prince Charles' long lost brother.... Yea, see my dad isnt so comfortable with it.. He's lived overseas for the past thirty years and I dont think he has any intention of going back hehe. Hmmm I think the main traits he's retained is a british accent (though slightly watered out), a need to eat potatoes at least once a week, a love of seriously good cheese (esp blue cheese), a tea addiction and the main channels he watches are BBC news and BBC entertainment. Ok, so he's fairly British, but i dont think he actually likes Britain that much. It would be so cool to have a british dad... but in Britain.
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Post by avax on Feb 9, 2007 11:12:34 GMT -5
this topic is dividing the people here. no offence, seriously man. what's up with the "anyone who has a real european parent?" <--- indirect version of, "anyone here with a real european parent?" --> bloody racist don't u think? now i feel like i don't belong here (yeah, i know most of u think that), but hey, i'm eurasian, but not a half northern american, american, european or woteva really. this old thread sucks and shudn't be brought back to life. We have always been divided. A unifying term like 'eurasian' or 'hapa' is a superficial label designed to make multi-ethnic people feel whole, the latter even borrowing from a people whom many here have zero connection with (ie. hawaiian peoples). It doesn't work that way. Mixed people with "real" european, american, canadian parents outside of south east asia often don't understand the way 'eurasian' is used in SEA. The dynamics are different. Despite all this, we still like to divide ourselves so that we can identify who or what we are. I think the thread could have been tacked with more wit but I do not think the thread itself is unnecessary. There are variations of 'mixedness'. Lumping everyone into 'eurasian' makes little sense. Why be uncomfortable with the divisions? Just curious- if you could elaborate more?
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Post by jenbrook on Feb 9, 2007 14:39:52 GMT -5
^You'd have to see the media here to understand. EAs in asia are just viewed as 'half white', doesnt really matter what their caucasian heritage is. They're viewed as technical asians with caucasionized features. In SEA, you have the locals, the expats and the eurasians which who are usually part of both crowds. So after a while it really doesnt matter what kind of eurasian you are, you're just half expat half local.. It a weird kind of society, the expat society.. They all kind of group together regardless of where they are from.
I dont like to see a divide either, but at the same time i think eurasians involved with europe or with north america or australia.. Have different experiences.
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Post by telliecoin on Feb 10, 2007 3:29:15 GMT -5
^ gotcha UB .. the term serani and baba nonya is way common now
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Post by unidentifiedbitch on Feb 10, 2007 4:05:19 GMT -5
^
meaning? You're serani too right?
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Post by jenbrook on Feb 10, 2007 4:49:25 GMT -5
Dude, I think multiple generation EAs are awesome. Their backgrounds are much more interesting then exact split EAs. Their backgrounds are kind of intertwined with old trading days and old colonial eras.
Its definatly interesting to me anyway.
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