Total population | |
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18,060 (2020)[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Singapore | |
Languages | |
Kristang, English Also: Chinese, Malay, etc. | |
Religion | |
Mainly Christianity Also: Sunni Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and no religion | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Kristang people, British people, Portuguese people, Macanese people, Dutch people, Indian diaspora |
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Eurasian Singaporeans are a wide category of Singaporeans of mixed European and Asian descent, which includes (but is not limited to) the creole and indigenous Kristang people, who form a distinct sub-group within the Eurasian community with their own separate language, culture and identity. The Asian ancestry of Eurasians traces from colonial India to other colonies while their European ancestry trace back to western Europe primarily, although Eurasian settlers to Singapore in the 19th century came largely from other European colonies. These included British Malaya and British Sarawak, part of the former British Raj India, of the former Portuguese India and Chittagong (today in Bangladesh), the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina. When the European maritime powers colonised Asian countries, such as colonial India, Ceylon, Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia and Indochina, from the 16th to 20th century, they brought into being a new group of commingled ethnicities known historically as Eurasians.[2]
Early Europeans were primarily male and often had children with local women. Initially, the offspring of such a union were brought up as an appendage of European culture, enjoying further advantages not generally accorded to the rest of the local Asian people.[3]
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