I AM EURASIAN

Film entry for Singapore Heritage Short Film Competition 2015
Group: The Holga People
Special thanks to the Eurasian Association (Singapore), Quetin's Restaurant, SeanElijah band
Interviewees: Chanel & Chloe Roberts, Shanice Hedger, Azariah & Zaccheus Michelmann
Research reference: Singapore Eurasians: Memories & Hope by Myrna Braga-Blake & Ann Ebert-Oehlers

[@tessboudewyn5332]

I am so proud to be a Eurasian. A beautiful. mixture of many races and cultures. A melting pot of East and West.

[@shadytree4259]

tess boudewyn I'm not an Eurasian cuz I'm a mixed of Indian, Indonesian, Malay and Arab... But I'm speechless with the Eurasians cultures, traditional foods and all about it ,,😊😊😊

[@adeleparry7734]

Me too ( half welsh half irish and a bit chinese) but some ppl think im malay filipino sarawakian sabahan..hahaha

[@stoggafllik]

@@adeleparry7734 Mutt

[@klewank2615]

Filipinos have no self-awareness. They often insult the Malays, but they proudly live on Malay land. Singapore is Malay land.​@@adeleparry7734

[@maypoohpooh2748]

We have the best of both worlds and am extremely proud to be a Eurasian.

[@dr_monday]

In Minahasa, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, there are also Eurasian community which is called Borgo. My mother and grandmother from my father side are of Spanish and Portuguese descendants. We are descendants of the Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese, those colonisers who came into Minahasa a few centuries ago and married the locals. Therefore, in Manado Malay, a creole Malay of the city, there are lots of loan words from Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese. You can identify us as Borgos in Minahasa from our surnames. greetings from us, Eurasians of Indonesia!

[@brunotorres7332]

Wish I could jump to Singapore now. Hugs from Portugal

[@EurAZNinvazn1214]

this video is fantastic! I'm glad you were able to provided this nuanced portrayal of Eurasian life :)

[@waynetashasworld]

We're proud to be Eurasians! 😀

[@margaretjohnson2146]

Beautiful people

[@in7687]

I am a Eurasian & a Muslim. mother Malay father Scottish. I totally understand how you can be mistaken for a foreigner and sometimes feel left out at times. just remember that there's a lot of mix marriage today. so people beginning to understand. by the way Eurasian means European mix with Asian.

[@MDIS]

rare to find Eurasian Muslim, they do exist but I would consider them new bloods or newer generations as old generations Portuguese Malay Eurasiand are still Roman Catholics or Christian.

[@sadised434]

Most of Muslims in Cape Town, South Africa are "Eurasian" according the definition in the video clip. The Muslims of Cape Town, have integrated and inter-married people from various races - Portuguese, Dutch, British, Indian, Chinese, and Malay-Indonesian, over the last 350 years. Our racial category has had so many different names, it's quite ridiculous. Semantics! In the 1600's the Dutch colonised many parts of Asia, and forcefully expelled Asian dissidents or ruling families from their home countries (Sulawesi, Java, Sumatra, Eastern China, India) to Cape Town, South Africa. At that time were called Cape Malay. In 1600's the concept of "Malay" meant mixed people. There was no country called Malaysia at that time. It was known as the 'Indonesian Archipelago". Then when the British took over South Africa we were known as Cape Muslim. Then when the Dutch Apartheid took the country back in the 1960's we called "Cape Coloured". As of 20 years ago, with the new African government we are known as Mixed People. If we go by the definition according to the video of what Eurasian means. Then yes, most of the Muslim mixed race people of Cape Town are Eurasian. So, Muslim Eurasians do exit - in very large numbers. @@MDIS

[@sechinah108]

Muslim is a religion, Eurasian is an ethnic identity - do not conflate them.

[@twentyeight2503]

Don't feel left out, i'm a malay scottish mix too, remember the malay scottish fam came out in stomp years back? I'm scott. Ethnic and religion is totally 2 different terms

[@twentyeight2503]

And which clan are ya from since u r scots

[@BartolomeuLanca]

Fantástico!

[@MDIS]

Portuguese-Malay Eurasian and proud.

[@AloysioWisnu]

Greetings from Indonesia. I am not Eurasian, but I once lived in Larantuka, a small town in Eastern Flores Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia for one year, and I've visited the neighbouring town, Maumere town in neighbouring regency. There were a lot of people with Portuguese surname, such as Fernandez, da Costa, de Rosari, Sakera (Sequeirah), Karwayu (Carvalho), Monteiro, Dores, da Gama, da Cunha, da Santo, da Mendez, Diaz, da Lopes, Riberu (Ribeiro), Parera (Pereira), and there is one Dutch surname in Larantuka, de Hornay, and there is one Dutch/German surname in Maumere, Hillers. Tradition said that when Dutch captured Malacca from Portuguese, some of Portuguese-Eurasians were managed to run away to Larantuka and Makassar in Southeren Sulawesi in Indonesia, and when Dutch captured Makassar, all the remaining Portuguese descendants flee to Larantuka. Eventually the Portuguese-Eurasian settlers from Malacca and Makassar intermarried with native Flores population and producing a great number of Flores people with Portuguese surnames (and a Dutch surname, de Hornay) In Larantuka, and in Wureh village and Konga village nearby, you will hear a language, derived from Malay, named Larantuka Malay or bahasa Nagi, sprinkled with language from the native Flores inhabitants, and few Portuguese and Javanese words. In Larantuka, there is a tradition named Semana Santa, a holy week that starts from Rabu Trewa ( a day before Maundy Thursday) and ends in Easter Sunday. There will be a huge feast in every Catholic family in Larantuka in Easter Sunday, strangely, the Easter celebration are much more live than Christmas 😅

[@khairulgafur7326]

Im Malay/Indian And Chinese

[@mdee8784]

As a European in Singapore I would never mistake these people for anything but Asian’s. The accents, mannerisms and language are completely different to anything Western even the food appears very Asian.

[@LiveEmpireSingapore]

love it!

[@toddmaek5436]

Secret there is NO SUCH CONTINENT as Europe there NEVER was thats WESTERN EURASIA. Eurasia existend LONG BEFORE portuguese ever went anywhere.

[@steveraman4562]

Be proud what you are and be happy

[@rodrigobenedictocorreia1140]

Im a Eurasian (Portuguese, Arab, Japanese and Chinese) living in Hong Kong and I feel proud to be a Eurasian

[@genepalomares7711]

Hello. Im a preschool teacher here in sg. I am tasked to do Eurasian item for the Graduation concert this year. Any music suggestion. Thank you.

[@ekseng]

Great, we are all Singaporeans

[@user-gy9dq3ij3g]

🎉🎉This is what South Africa is like. We are multi cultural though, I'm not a mix I'm just Zulu. We love the Boer here, the live with us peacefully, they are originally Dutch now they have their own dialect. We have South African Indian people, recently China has started moving here, people love coming to live here, we welcome them if they obey the law. We call all mixed race people Coloured, it's not derogatory it's just their Race here. I also believe there should be more Eurasians in the world! I'm realising that some European people were welcomed in foreign countries when they left Europe, but those who do slavery are not welcome.

[@natashaphillips9953]

Im eurasian too.. So hard to explain our race to other people.. To avoid explanation so i just told my race is malay hahahhaha proud to be eurasian!!!

[@arthurwatts1680]

Surely their mandatory stint in the SAF settles any question re their status as a Singaporean ? When I served in the Australian Army, I don't recall seeing a single Asian face - that has changed, and it should be no different in your country, particularly with mandatory military service. You'll never change the attitudes of strangers, but when you see someone in the uniform of your country's Armed Forces, it sends a powerful message re the commitment they're prepared to make.

[@jackieortegadesigns326]

I'm a Filipino Eurasian. I have Filipino, Spanish, Arab and a little bit of Chinese in me.

[@kararkaifkhananan7836]

nice!

[@Ccb88888]

When the Portuguese came to Asia on their ships, they had African sailors (both freemen and slaves). There are famous 15th-16th century Japanese screen paintings (esp. from painter Kano Naizen (1570-1616)) from the Portuguese trading post at Nagasaki port that show this: The Eurasians with Portuguese surnames therefore probably have African ancestry as well.

[@sidk.8766]

Eurasians are beautiful

[@d.tbichnga3448]

All mixed children are beautiful! So are Eurasian ethnics!...

[@yvonneandhans3040]

I am proud to be a Eurasian too with unique Green Coloured Eyes that always make me stand out wherever I am in the world and yes even in my Husband's native Denmark where the Danes are predominately natural blonde hair and blue/brown eyes ............. I can identify with what one of the girls said in this video that............................ "Because of how racially diverse I am, I don't discriminate on the other races." :-D..............And I must add that you can't blame me if I'm colour blind.

[@MDIS]

Not really, some of us do have home origins in Portugal and Malaysia.. even though many are in Singapore from Melaka

[@thomascook9697]

im proud to be an eurasian races..im from borneo..hehe

[@marsattack3622]

You are Euro Asian and you should be proud of it. Magnificent mixture, the future of humanity!

[@arepick36]

Im a Eurasian and i proud to be a Eurasian. That curry i one of my favourite dish xD

[@mangkokhayon5039]

Girls at minute 0:16 look like they're as Malay/Filipina as they can be. They don't even have that Indian looks to them let alone Portuguese and British. lol. I'd have hard time believing that if they ever told me that.

[@povyi9394]

Nikirta Adrian agreed

[@MDIS]

Are you a Eurasian? Dont hate lah

[@mangkokhayon5039]

@@MDIS I'm not Eurasian, but I'm 1/4 Sindhi. Are you a Eurasian?. Nope, I wasn't hating, just saying what crossed my mind.

[@mangkokhayon5039]

@Ercan Kilic True, even Parsis of India.

[@user-ot6zk3wv6g]

@@auroralavender404 )))))))

[@selenaadnan423]

I'm malay Portuguese... ;)

[@rgproductions5358]

im portuguese and you are very pretty xD

[@uyghurmalay4155]

Love to see it

[@twentyeight2503]

I'm malay scottish ;)

[@heinzdoofy2658]

Zaccheus is my school mate

[@angrycat1426]

I'am eurasian (Russian,Yakutian(Sakha),Polish,Korean)

[@zxriel5339]

Im eurasians- filipino and german

[@sharonkhoo83]

I'm Chinese + Thai + Filipino + Vietnamese

[@natasha2432]

omygosh, your surname is gow too? im a scottish chinese mixed child my surname is gow too are u somehow related to scottish? i live in asia btw

[@twentyeight2503]

I'm malay scottish mixed from my dad side, if you have scots roots, you should know ya clan from, im from McAngus

[@jerryberry5480]

Is it me or most of them look like typical Malays and Filipinos

[@povyi9394]

Yep they look 100% Asian

[@faizalcooncateery1820]

Because married with local people bro.Mix already.

[@MDIS]

Only current generations of Mixed Race Marriages looks more Caucasian , many of us with at least 350 years of family history either looked more Malay, or more Arab-ish, Indian-ish or Just mixed with a heavier Caucasian look.. Typically Portuguese Malay Matriarch are all Malay women in Melaka Malaysia and Singapore with a few Chinese who marries a Portuguese man or merchant or businessmen and sailors. So if you do go to Melaka, many of the elders do look Melayu or Malay or some say Filipino-ish and yes we do speak Bahasa Melayu or Malay language but we also speak Creole Portuguese which makes it unique as it also has loan words from Arabic, Spanish or Moorish and the Malay language. Those who look more Caucasian in the olden times are usually 1st and 2nd generation but by 3rd or 5th many would have that Malay-Chinese-Indian look anyways

[@aynk85]

True, most of them in the vid only have name and mix parentage, it's like mom European and dad asian so we are Eurasian but look like typical indian Malay or Chinese, I live in Malaysia, i have slightly brown eyes and hair, my face look more like Turkish or ughyur (my siblings visit turkey last year and find my doppleganger), but my mom and dad are Malay, so does my grand parent and their grandparents, am I Eurasian? Nope in my identification card says im malay, if other ask what race are u? Well my answer is I'm Malaysian, proud to be malaysian 😁

[@minim6981]

@@MDIS Eurasians in Singapore don't have a lot of European blood. In the Philippines, we wouldn't consider anyone in the video as "mestizo" This is what Spanish-Filipinos in the Philippines look like. They actually look European or mixed with European kzbin.info/www/bejne/Znjbqph3esmtotE

[@user-ot6zk3wv6g]

0:17 they are not eurasian. They are 100% asian.

[@haemaun_8575]

Portugal & Britain aren't part of Asia

[@povyi9394]

My dad is Eurasian and I don't consider myself one..but everyone always say I look half white LOL..

[@johnsonjackson8078]

To be honest, most of them don't look eurasian, infact they looked asian. Eurasian is a child of a caucasian/white and asian couple. I'd seen many in USA, Canada, you can tell from their looked. Well, this is just my personal observation

[@Kid_Ikaris]

Hmm. I consider myself Eurasian because I'm descendant of Steppe peoples. I guess the word can refer to multiple things.

[@izwanhafiz4059]

I'm mix earth and mars

[@jonminnella2966]

Ŕespect

[@chrish4994]

sarong party girls have been around since war time lah

[@lemagnifique1573]

Mixed between White and Asians are beautiful

[@liongkienfai104]

7:41 Why do the subtitles translate Papua as Malay (馬來)? Attention to Chinese Singaporeans/Malaysians; not everyone in Indonesia is a Malay. 印尼公民不一定是馬來人。 馬來族是一個種族而已。 我們有幾百多的種族。 在巴布亞島也有好多不同的種族。 比如阿斯馬特族、阿拉伯裔、科羅威族、爪哇族、華裔、安汶族、等。

[@lmh1p1s]

Basically, the meaning of “EURASIA”is A region comprising parts of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. And “EURASIAN” means the admixed group who live in “EURASIA “. In my humble opinion, the proper way of EURASIAN can be defined “ Anglo - Chinese, Filipino, Korean + other Asian ethnics “ Nowadays, The meaning of European is the person who obtains any of EU members’ citizenship under EU Constitution; thus, any race can be European, such as Asian, African, Arabic etc. If any of non Caucasian European gets married to Asian and has his or her junior ... should we can the child “ EURASIAN ?” If not qualified to be called “ EURASIAN” , is it racism ? Discrimination? Human is human & human is social being who can be one of us & be loved .. the ways of distinguishing/ putting the interracially mixed ppl in the other colored views must be “WRONG” * No Offence was designed; but just shared my opinion as one ☝️ of the mixed races “

[@vistrabya1229]

iam eurasian too. Dutch, Germany and Indonesian.

[@KMantle]

Europe is part of Asia. Europe comes from Europah who was a Queen in that particular region of Asia. The Earth is Asia / Gaia.

[@NNigamji]

All "Brahmans" staying in India are Eureshian because DNA & language of "Brahmans" matches with Eureshian country .........I am pure Indian 🇮🇳💪

[@flyingspacebrainedidiot]

Did you hear of the Indo-European culture? It is theorised/inferred that there was a culture of people who spread and conquered Europe and the northern parts of India. Therefore, most of India now could be distantly related to the Europeans, but that doesn't mean that they are Eurasian, since the definition of that word is a mix of Asian and European, whereas in India they were the same culture but then developed apart.

[@ranasinghereubenelvisseyad5096]

I am eurasian. My dad is eurasian, me mum is pure dutch and me granny from arab and me great granny javanese. We were the first eurasian family to stay in radin mas. History were jalan wijaya, jalan sayang and kembangan

[@povyi9394]

RANASINGHE REUBEN ELVIS SEYADORIS cool. My dad is Eurasian and mom pure asian..LOL..

[@howardstern9129]

RANASINGHE REUBEN ELVIS SEYADORIS How do your eyes look?

[@sadised434]

Just to clarify an assertion that there are no Muslim Eurasians. This is a fallacy! Most of Muslims in Cape Town, South Africa are "Eurasian" according the definition in this video clip. The Muslims of Cape Town, have integrated and inter-married people from various races - Portuguese, Dutch, British, Indian, Chinese, and Malay-Indonesian, over the last 350 years. Our racial category has had so many different names, it's quite ridiculous. Semantics! In the 1600's the Dutch colonised many parts of Asia, and forcefully expelled Dutch dissidents or the ruling families from various Asian countries (Sulawesi, Melaka (west coast of Malaysia), Java, Sumatra, Eastern China, India) to Cape Town, South Africa. At that time were called Cape Malay. In 1600's the concept of "Malay" meant mixed people. There was no country called Malaysia at that time. It was known as the 'Indonesian Archipelago". Then when the British took over South Africa we were known as Cape Muslim. Then when the Dutch Apartheid took the country back in the 1960's we called "Cape Coloured". As of 20 years ago, with the new African government we are known as Mixed People. If we go by the definition according to the video of what Eurasian means. Then yes, most of the Muslim mixed race people of Cape Town are Eurasian. So, Muslim Eurasians do exit - in very large numbers. See video about the "Eurasian Muslims of Cape Town: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmjdpJqAfNRoq6M

[@sheenagow8738]

Thanks for sharing! Did not know much about what happened on the other side of the world!

[@Rapidn911]

Islam is a religion NOT race, there is Asians, Africans, Europeans etc Muslims.

[@vernicejillmagsino9603]

@@Rapidn911 Jews are both race and religion

[@nouranahmad6259]

The two girls looked typical asian. Not a glimpse of european i guess? Or mixed too much???

[@MDIS]

Nouran Ahmad Eurasians who do have a long history do look more localized today. Those new bloods Caucasian looking Singaporeans are not Eurasians with at least 500 or 350 years of family history. So do not assume that we all look Mat Salleh or Orang Puteh, maybe the 1st to 3rd Generations ago yes but today's Eurasian is mixed. New blood Eurasian and Old Bloods are different. Just like if you are a Malay Muslim and you marry Chinese , of course your children will have a mix look as its considered a 1st rojak but if your children marries someone whose Baweanese or Boyanese or Javanese then your grandchildren or great grand children then will look more Malay and Malay is also a mixed ethnic bag of race as well .. not really 1 race

[@minim6981]

@Jacky Phantom Eurasians in Singapore don't have a lot of European blood. In the Philippines, we wouldn't consider anyone in the video as "mestizo" This is what Spanish-Filipinos in the Philippines look like. They actually look European or mixed with European kzbin.info/www/bejne/Znjbqph3esmtotE

[@anatheistmyself]

Does 1/16 Russian still count as Eurasian? I am 1/16 Russian (paternal grandmother's side).

[@tilelate9718]

If you really want to nit pick we are all mixed. Race and it's role in society is little about what YOU identify with and more of what society sees you as. So do you still count as Eurasian? If you want to identify as it go ahead but depending on your appearance, the rest of society will probably just see you as chinese. Afterall, racism is mainly just lookism.

[@howardstern9129]

Jade Chen No.you look weird

[@stoggafllik]

@@tilelate9718 diam lah

[@tilelate9718]

@@stoggafllik wow what a big boy, what are you gonna do about it?

[@stoggafllik]

@@tilelate9718 You singaporean anot? Not singaporean get lost lah.

[@jackrider76]

17000 eurasians in singapore but very very less who speaks portuguese

[@MDIS]

Steve De Roche Portuguese and Kristang is still spoken in Melaka Malaysia and in Singapore its slowly making a revival in 2017 2018

[@dehilmabahadur8769]

Im a mix of portuguese father n mom nepali ..i speak portuguese maintain the language in my home..

[@mrj475]

They just looks indian

[@dj3us]

Pretty interesting. In my country people mainly associate «Eurasian» with Russia’s idiotic «Eurasian Union» :/

[@kennedygalloway5608]

dj___ it is bc I’m native America “Russian” (Asian) Soo Eurasian a mix of contents Europe and Asia

[@officialnyiyanmoehtet]

Eurasians Look like Hispanics/Latinos/Mestizos. Basically the terms mean the same thing. People just name them differently.

[@vernicejillmagsino9603]

Filipinos are Hispanics and Eurasians

[@mesopotaniales]

if eurasians relate themselves with Singapore as a background country, then Eurasians should be the major ethnic group in Singapore, they should represent the average face of singaporeans instead of chinese

[@sheenagow8738]

they are one of the 4 official races in Singapore but because of their numbers as of now, they are a minority. perhaps in the past, they were bigger in numbers

[@thexcomer8356]

Other races are breeding them out, specially chinese people are increasing

[@anasawitri2678]

Amanda Bellini chinese people are everywhere lol

[@tilelate9718]

In the video it said locally born eurasians doubled that of the locally born chinese in the early 1900s. Now a days, due to outmarriage, many children of eurasians and other races tend to just identify with the race they look most like. A big part of race is how society sees you.

[@25oxendine]

Eurasian is a term with two different meanings. It also means people from a certain region of the world that really has nothing to do with having European ancestors, but genetically speaking Middle-Eastern

[@auroralavender404]

Mix with indian didin't give the best result. asian like chinese malaysian, korean japan mixed with western will give the best result.

[@jendallas7455]

Aurora Lavender There are so many stunning women who has won beauty peagents like Jacqueline Fernandez. Indian/south Asian and western mix looks the most stunning. 🤷‍♀️

[@editzguy6930]

Indian Vedic sabhyta member Real arya No eurasian only real asian

[@ankerpexal6573]

latina + asian = asian/latina asian + Europe = eurasian

[@AngirsonLopez]

Anker Pexal What's your point?

[@danaiken2673]

0:22 doesn't look like eurasians more like asians

[@malayangrago5628]

Ethnicity ought to be a better approach to describing the community that had arisen from heterogeneously assimilating various homogeneous racial & cultural attributes due to regional hybridity (Melaka, Singapore, Penang, Macao, Goa, Mauritius, the Philippines, etc). Each enclave has its own identifying words for its members, therefore it would be lacking in social correctness to imply derogatorily that they are descendents of black slaves let loosen onto the new world by ancient sea-faring white masters. To put things in perspective; the connotation is that it is not a race but a people; so some of you out there had gotten their analogies inaccurate by their sarcastics remarks to scorn other minority communities. This is indicative of shallowness & simplicitic mindedness of parochialism among certain quarters.

[@mmrgratitudes]

I can't even imagine Filipinos making a video like this. It would be so cringe-worthy. Even the term Eurasian is a little uncomfortable. I mean people are called mestizo, but it doesn't have this connotation of anything serious. There are Spaniards who haven't married into the native population, but they've been there for centuries. They're proud to be Filipino. Eurasians are everywhere. Being half white, half chinese, half whatever, is like: GREAT... let's move on. It's interesting to see the way other Asian countries deal with certain parts of their history and culture. Thanks for sharing.

[@yusriabdulrazak1894]

Waste time lah...