Re: Ding Wen's interview

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 10 fév, 00:51, wyeo <willie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 9, 10:27 pm, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
>
> > Malay refers to religion. Malaysian to geography.
>
> Malay(s) refers to an ethic group of people (like south americans they
> have the Incas) resident mainly in south east asia.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_people
>
> The religion of the Malay people is Islam (well, at least 99% I
> believe).
>
> Malaysian refers to the citizen of Malaysia (Malaysia is a country in
> South East Asia), of the population is made up of a majority of
> Malays.
>
> -------
>
> Ding Wen's is born in Malaysia (well, I think he is !), with his
> ancestors from China, and now living in Singapore.
>
> He's ethnically Chinese, with Malaysian citizenship. Hence, he is a
> Malaysian Chinese (just like chinese living in America are called
> American Chinese).
>
> :)

I thank you for that clear explanation.

We handle that differently in France but that is not the raison d'être
of that group to discuss that matter.

Antoine