Comments on: Indonesian Chinese http://www.mygreyworld.com/blog/2009/04/30/indonesian-chinese/ I grey, you grey. Yeay. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sylvia Giacinta http://www.mygreyworld.com/blog/2009/04/30/indonesian-chinese/comment-page-1/#comment-26288 Sylvia Giacinta Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:18:10 +0000 http://www.mygreyworld.com/blog/?p=698#comment-26288 I think home is where you choose to be in. In the end our nationality doesn't matter. If you can't choose Indonesia to be home, that's perfectly fine. I sincerely hope you'll find the place you can call home in one way or another ;) I think home is where you choose to be in. In the end our nationality doesn’t matter. If you can’t choose Indonesia to be home, that’s perfectly fine. I sincerely hope you’ll find the place you can call home in one way or another ;)

]]> By: f1repyro http://www.mygreyworld.com/blog/2009/04/30/indonesian-chinese/comment-page-1/#comment-25639 f1repyro Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:49:16 +0000 http://www.mygreyworld.com/blog/?p=698#comment-25639 I am Indonesian Chinese too, same like you. But our analogy is different. Although I was born and raised in Indonesia, I never feel like Indonesian.. and I don't feel like Chinese too. I was trying to be accepted by Indonesian fellow but it's useless. Don't get me wrong, I got plenty of Indonesian friends and Indonesian Chinese friends. But in the end I am different. My brother married with chinese from mainland so I know now that chinese from mainland never think of us, overseas chinese, as chinese anymore. They think of us as foreigners. So right now, I feel like I lost my identity of which country should I serve and give my heart too. But, 'coz May 1998's trauma, I will never consider my self as Indonesian citizen. I got many chinese indonesian friends that already can't speak mandarin and their culture become more and more like javanese. Don't get me wrong, I got 2 ex-girlfriends that are chinese indonesian from java island and their culture, how they were raised seems odd and not right to me. They tend to spoiled and money oriented. Medan girls are also like that. I wonder why. Ex : My ex fight with her mom and her mom stopped her monthly income until she's apologize to her mom. I was like WTH !! is that how they raise their children. With money, not advice or rotan or what so ever. Regards, I am Indonesian Chinese too, same like you.
But our analogy is different.
Although I was born and raised in Indonesia, I never feel like Indonesian.. and I don’t feel like Chinese too.
I was trying to be accepted by Indonesian fellow but it’s useless. Don’t get me wrong, I got plenty of Indonesian friends and Indonesian Chinese friends. But in the end I am different.

My brother married with chinese from mainland so I know now that chinese from mainland never think of us, overseas chinese, as chinese anymore.
They think of us as foreigners.
So right now, I feel like I lost my identity of which country should I serve and give my heart too.
But, ‘coz May 1998′s trauma, I will never consider my self as Indonesian citizen.

I got many chinese indonesian friends that already can’t speak mandarin and their culture become more and more like javanese. Don’t get me wrong, I got 2 ex-girlfriends that are chinese indonesian from java island and their culture, how they were raised seems odd and not right to me.
They tend to spoiled and money oriented. Medan girls are also like that. I wonder why.

Ex : My ex fight with her mom and her mom stopped her monthly income until she’s apologize to her mom. I was like WTH !! is that how they raise their children. With money, not advice or rotan or what so ever.

Regards,

]]> By: Sylvia Giacinta http://www.mygreyworld.com/blog/2009/04/30/indonesian-chinese/comment-page-1/#comment-23372 Sylvia Giacinta Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:41:57 +0000 http://www.mygreyworld.com/blog/?p=698#comment-23372 HF Lim, I don't know if you've read my piece, but clearly I was not talking about Indochina at all. And my point is Indonesian Chinese is the term I use to describe Indonesians of Chinese descent like myself. I'm sorry to say this, but I would prefer to help my fellow Indonesians, regardless of ethnicity, to help other Chinese whom I got no connection to. HF Lim, I don’t know if you’ve read my piece, but clearly I was not talking about Indochina at all. And my point is Indonesian Chinese is the term I use to describe Indonesians of Chinese descent like myself.

I’m sorry to say this, but I would prefer to help my fellow Indonesians, regardless of ethnicity, to help other Chinese whom I got no connection to.

]]> By: hf Lim http://www.mygreyworld.com/blog/2009/04/30/indonesian-chinese/comment-page-1/#comment-23370 hf Lim Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:36:51 +0000 http://www.mygreyworld.com/blog/?p=698#comment-23370 No.... U all are mixed up..... No such thing as malaysian chinese, indonesian chinese, and the word indochina means Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, nothing to do with indonesian..... Just always remember, we are all chinese and we must help each other no matter where we are.......... No…. U all are mixed up….. No such thing as malaysian chinese, indonesian chinese, and the word indochina means Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, nothing to do with indonesian….. Just always remember, we are all chinese and we must help each other no matter where we are……….

]]> By: Sylvia Giacinta http://www.mygreyworld.com/blog/2009/04/30/indonesian-chinese/comment-page-1/#comment-22146 Sylvia Giacinta Sat, 09 May 2009 06:46:20 +0000 http://www.mygreyworld.com/blog/?p=698#comment-22146 Yup we're different like that ;) Yup we’re different like that ;)

]]> By: Daphne Maia http://www.mygreyworld.com/blog/2009/04/30/indonesian-chinese/comment-page-1/#comment-22144 Daphne Maia Sat, 09 May 2009 05:24:18 +0000 http://www.mygreyworld.com/blog/?p=698#comment-22144 ehh. i just had to comment on this sentence: "Chinese is merely my ancestry, my heritage." altho i tell people I am a Malaysian-Chinese, i don't think Chinese is <i>merely</i> my ancestry, my heritage. cos above all, I am Chinese. i don't consider myself a citizen of any country, but a citizen of the world. :) i don't feel as much for Malaysia, as I feel for Singapore or Indonesia, countries I've lived in for a decade or more each. But for each, I can say, i feel only as much as my good memories of the place remain. no nationalistic or patriotic feelings, at all. So above all... I am Chinese. :) we're so different ah? :P ehh. i just had to comment on this sentence:

“Chinese is merely my ancestry, my heritage.”

altho i tell people I am a Malaysian-Chinese, i don’t think Chinese is merely my ancestry, my heritage.

cos above all, I am Chinese. i don’t consider myself a citizen of any country, but a citizen of the world. :) i don’t feel as much for Malaysia, as I feel for Singapore or Indonesia, countries I’ve lived in for a decade or more each. But for each, I can say, i feel only as much as my good memories of the place remain. no nationalistic or patriotic feelings, at all.

So above all… I am Chinese. :) we’re so different ah? :P

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