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[edit] So, what's a Chinese?

Come & drink tea with me, LOR! Tea for Chinese~

According to Chinese tradition, the original cup of tea was not invented but discovered in the course of daily affairs by the simple inhabitants in the hills of Min-nan, who found out the secret of preserving the essence of the green tea leaves. It was rolled and dried and good for keeping until when needed.

In modern China, virtually every dwelling--down to the simplest mud huts--has a set of tea implements for brewing a hot cup of tea. These implements are symbols of welcome for visitors or neighbors.

Traditionally, a visitor to a Chinese home will be expected to sit down and drink tea while talking; the Chinese consider having such visits while standing to be uncouth

I call it the root cause of our 5000 years old culture. Actually it's only a drink, ie. I drink hot tea, cup after cups of it without any problem.

"Far deeper than the formal trends of common values in Chinese culture is found with simple plant known as tea. It is an essence discovered by the simple farmers while trying to enhance their tasteless water. Tea is found all over scattered in the many parts of China. Without tea, there will not be any real roots to the real cause of the Chinese culture."

[edit] Tea a symbol of Chinese culture

汝會曉講閩南語是無？真好！若安呢，汝敢知影全世界講閩南語啲儂攏總有偌儕,到底攏啥物所在啲儂咧講閩南語咧？著！汝有影誠內行，咱閩南語主要著是分佈佇：福建南部（廈門、漳州、泉州）、臺灣、潮州汕頭、雷州半島、海南島，佮浙江省啲南部。上重要啲，咱閩南語會使講是國際語言，佇東南亞、美國、加拿大、歐洲...一四界攏會當聽著咱厝啲聲音。根據統計，現主時，全世界會曉講閩南語啲儂超過5000萬，世界頂上儕儂講啲語言當中，閩南語排第22名。有文化則有歷史，有語言則有文化，有文字則有永遠啲語言。汝敢知影閩南語員仔有家己啲文字？無呣著！著是白話字(Pe̍h-ōe-jī)！即陣Wikipedia著是一個專題互儂寫白話字啲好所在，用咱厝啲話，寫古早，寫現在，寫未來，寫全世界大細項代誌...朋友啊，汝佫咧等啥？

你不會說/讀/寫閩南語嗎？ 閩南語是漢藏語系的一份子。福建南部、廣東一部份、台灣、東南亞等地皆有使用者。全世界數千種語言當中，閩南語人口排名第二十一名。你看不懂白話字？ 白話字是一種已經有近兩百年歷史，使用拉丁字母書寫閩南語的一種書寫系統。 {{trying to make sense}}

Ruth Oh is a Chinese Singaporean living among Canadians in Alberta!

Chinese A Singaporean does not mean that person is a Chinese, that someone can be just about as likely to be of any races including the Chinese.

We are a multi-racial and multicultural society and anyone who permanently resides here and identifying with the community at large in Singapore are Singaporeans.

Singaporeans could be anyone, from Malay to Indian or Ceylonese, or any of the people living here and have their homes in Singapore.
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As far as can be determined a person's peerage in Singapore is not necessary determined by parentage or genes but by the academic standing, peer group, cultural standing and age etc certainly not because of race alone.

My father is a Malay does that make me A Malay when I am brought up as a Chinese <by my own> Mother who is a freethinking modern day Chinese Ah chim? I am not pure Malay but a mixture of all kinds of genes!

Chinese are only real because they look like one Chinaman or Chinese lady. My Mother is Chinese, I am Malay because she marry a Malay man! That's parentage in the sense of fatherhood accountablity!

Most people of Chinese<race> descent here speak Hokkien actually it is known as Min Nan<Southern> language. here is a sample

• • • Sin-ka-pho kiōng-hô-kok (Eng-gú: The Republic of Singapore) sī Má-lâi-se-a pòan-tó (Peninsula of Malaysia) lâm-hong ê tó-kok, thó·-tē bīn-chek 647.5 km².

Sin-ka-pho ê jîn-kháu ū tāi-iok 400-bān lâng. Hôa-jîn (Tiong-kok hiat-thóng) chiàm 76.9%, Má-lâi-lâng 14%, Ìn-tō·-lâng 7.7%, ki-thaⁿ cho̍k-kûn chiàm 1.4%.

Chú-iàu ê chong-kàu ū: hu̍t-kàu, tō-kàu, Islam-kàu, Ki-tok-kàu kah ìn-tō·-kàu.

Má-lâi-gú (Malay) sī kok-gú. Eng-gú, Pak-kiaⁿ-ōe (Mandarin), Tamil-gú lóng-sī koaⁿ-hong gú-giân, kî-tiong Eng-gú iū-koh sī hêng-chèng iōng-gú, thiong-iōng ê kang-chok gú-giân.

Hôa-jîn cho̍k-kûn ê thong-iōng gí-giân ū: Pak-kiaⁿ-ōe, Hokkien, Teochew, Kńg-tang-ōe kap Hakka sù tāi hong-giân.

****Take the case of a famous person in Singapore :S. Dhanabalan is a Singaporean of Tamil Indian descent. A devout Christian (Baptist), he is married to Christine Dhanabalan (who is ethnic Chinese) and they have two children. from wikipedia sources [[1]] Question: what about their children , are they Indians? Tamils or Chinese? Please tell someone? I think they are all Christians, that is their religion, but not their race, may be they are all free to choose _Lor! Tea for Chinese~

According to Chinese tradition, the original cup of tea was not invented but discovered in the course of daily affairs by the simple inhabitants in the hills of Min-nan, who found out the secret of preserving the essence of the green tea leaves. It was rolled and dried and good for keeping until when needed.

In modern China, virtually every dwelling--down to the simplest mud huts--has a set of tea implements for brewing a hot cup of tea. These implements are symbols of welcome for visitors or neighbors.

Traditionally, a visitor to a Chinese home will be expected to sit down and drink tea while talking; the Chinese consider having such visits while standing to be uncouth

I call it the root cause of our 5000 years old culture. Actually it's only a drink, ie. I drink hot tea, cup after cups of it without any problem.

"Far deeper than the formal trends of common values in Chinese culture is found with simple plant known as tea. It is an essence discovered by the simple farmers while trying to enhance their tasteless water. Tea is found all over scattered in the many parts of China. Without tea, there will not be any real roots to the real cause of the Chinese culture."

[edit] Tea a symbol of Chinese culture

汝會曉講閩南語是無？真好！若安呢，汝敢知影全世界講閩南語啲儂攏總有偌儕,到底攏啥物所在啲儂咧講閩南語咧？著！汝有影誠內行，咱閩南語主要著是分佈佇：福建南部（廈門、漳州、泉州）、臺灣、潮州汕頭、雷州半島、海南島，佮浙江省啲南部。上重要啲，咱閩南語會使講是國際語言，佇東南亞、美國、加拿大、歐洲...一四界攏會當聽著咱厝啲聲音。根據統計，現主時，全世界會曉講閩南語啲儂超過5000萬，世界頂上儕儂講啲語言當中，閩南語排第22名。有文化則有歷史，有語言則有文化，有文字則有永遠啲語言。汝敢知影閩南語員仔有家己啲文字？無呣著！著是白話字(Pe̍h-ōe-jī)！即陣Wikipedia著是一個專題互儂寫白話字啲好所在，用咱厝啲話，寫古早，寫現在，寫未來，寫全世界大細項代誌...朋友啊，汝佫咧等啥？

你不會說/讀/寫閩南語嗎？ 閩南語是漢藏語系的一份子。福建南部、廣東一部份、台灣、東南亞等地皆有使用者。全世界數千種語言當中，閩南語人口排名第二十一名。你看不懂白話字？ 白話字是一種已經有近兩百年歷史，使用拉丁字母書寫閩南語的一種書寫系統。 {{trying to make sense}}

Link to Hokkien wiki or Holopedia [[2]]