Origin Of Baba And Nyonya

719 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: the impact of cultural assimilation

“Baba –Nyonya”, “Peranakan” or “Straits-born Chinese” is the ethnic group that existed in Nusantara region which consists of British Straits Settlement and Java in Indonesia that is controlled by Dutch (petite nyonya 2009). British Straits Settlement includes Malacca, Penang in Malaysia and Singapore. According to the standard Malaysia Malay language dictionary Kamus Dewan, the term “Peranakan” brings the meaning of “Keturunan daripada anak negeri dengan orang asing” which means the offspring that result from the marriage between local and foreigner (Eugene Khoo 2013). Baba represents male for Peranakan while Nyonya represents the female.
The history and origin of Baba and Nyonya ethnic group began in 15th century or 500 to 600 years ago. …show more content…

Most of the Chinese businessman did not bring along their life partner in this journey. Hence, they intermarried with the Malacca local woman and eventually form the Baba and Nyonya ethnic group.
The third wave of growing for Baba and Nyonya ethnic group was happened when China suffering from the economic difficulties. As the result of economic difficulties, many residents from China had to migrate to Nusantara region to earn living (BABA&NYONYA 2009).The China immigrant had to follow and adapt to the local country culture besides their original country culture. Some of the immigrant eventually married with the local women in Nusantara countries and form the Baba-Nyonya …show more content…

For example, it is very difficult to differentiate between the Peranakan in Tangerang located in Indonesia with the local Indonesian (NADHRAH 2009). These Baba-Nyonya race later migrate between the countries in Nusantara due to education or economic factors. For example, some of them were being sent to work in other Nusantara region during the British colonisation in Malaya. In Malacca, it is believed before British colonisation some Baba-Nyonya migrate to Penang and Singapore because Malacca was losing the important place as trading port and the place is being progressively taken over by Penang and Singapore (petite nyonya 2009). As the result it caused the all the Baba-Nyonya in Nusantara region shared the similarity in their culture (BABA&NYONYA 2009). Besides, the language spoken by Peranakan which is creole was very close to the local language from all these three region thus making them easy to adapt when migrate to the new

Show More
Related

  • Yoruba Cultural Influence

    1730 Words  | 4 Pages

    In the late 1800s, the Yoruba’s formed a treaty with the Fulani and in 1901 they

    Read More

  • Origins of the N-Word

    1380 Words  | 3 Pages

    The words Negro, nigger, and nigga have always been a sensitive topic, yet it is a topic that needs to be addressed in light of the more common use of its vernacular. One word is used to describe a color, while the others are used to define a people. It’s very clear to many the negative connotation these words carry, but where did these words come from? Furthermore, is there a difference between the word nigger and nigga; and why is it that African-Americans now use the word nigga to degrade each other in today’s society? These words, in spite of their spelling, still holds the same degrading power as it did during the time of slavery, and they are still spoken out of cruelty and ignorance, but who is to blame? Can one still blame the Spaniards for considering people of a darker skin tone –Black? Can we blame the Europeans for perpetuating their hatred and ignorance of superiority over a race of people to the point they felt it lawful to define and dehumanize them? Or does the blame lie with the African-American race as we use this degrading labeling on our own kind, thus becoming the victimizer. Either way nigger or nigga are words that should be eliminated from the vocabulary of every human being.

    Read More

  • The House Of Lim Summary

    710 Words  | 2 Pages

    In her book, The House of Lim, author Margery Wolf observes the Lims, a large Chinese family living in a small village in Taiwan in the early 1960s (Wolf iv). She utilizes her book to portray the Lim family through multiple generations. She provides audiences with a firsthand account of the family life and structure within this specific region and offers information on various customs that the Lims and other families participate in. She particularly mentions and explains the marriage customs that are the norm within the society. Through Wolf’s ethnography it can be argued that parents should not dec5pide whom their children marry. This argument is obvious through the decline in marriage to simpua, or little girls taken in and raised as future daughter-in-laws, and the influence parents have over their children (Freedman xi).

    Read More

  • African Migrations Up to the 19th Century

    1274 Words  | 3 Pages

    Migrations have taken place by slaves and by free people of sub-Saharan Africa for over seventy thousand years, beginning with the tropical areas of the Old World and followed by Eurasia and the Americas. These migrations, or Diasporas, began with religious voyages and cultural exchanges and evolved to the slave trade and the deportation of black men, women and children to new colonies as workers and servants. Long before the Atlantic slave trade grew, merchants from Greece and the Roman Empire traveled to the East African coast. Patrick Manning points out in, African Diaspora: A History Through Culture, that migrants came from southern Arabia to Eretria and Ethiopia in the first millennium BCE (Manning 36). As time went on, contacts grew with other regions of Africa and trade developed with Asia and Europe. This resulted in further migrations of black Africans as both slaves and free men. The Africans brought with them customs, music food preparation techniques and minerals. For example, the discovery of copper in Central Africa brought about a substantial trans-Saharan trade and more exchange of culture and migrations. As more Africans migrated to various parts of the world, they carried with them their culture and learned new techniques and ways of life. Whether they migrated as slaves or as free men, the Africans influenced their new lands and African identity was influenced forever. This paper will look at the effects of these migrations on African identity throughout the Diaspora. It will examine migration patterns, issues of race, racial hierarchy and culture.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of The Six Records Of A Floating Life

    1383 Words  | 3 Pages

    However, this “ladder of success” was not as simple as it seemed. First of all, the class of both families will be a huge barrier. We are not even talking about freedom to love here, there is no such thing in late imperial China. Although we can’t say that love doesn’t exist even in such systems, such as Shen Fu and Chen Yun, but most marriages are not about love. Rather, it was about exchange of values. For example, when two families want to become business partners, the parents of the family will have their son and daughter married, so the two families will have closer bonding which made the business much easier. In this sense, we can see that the couple is simply a tool. In the same sense, the families which has not much “values” can only have marriages with the same class of families. Meaning for a women to climb up the ladder of success is not quite possible as the class of her family is a huge deciding factor for marriage in the

    Read More

  • Essay On Difference Between Ethiopian And American Culture

    737 Words  | 2 Pages

    Many people moved from their country to another to have a better life, moreover; they would adopt another culture and shifted to new culture. when I first come to the United States, it is hard for me to interact with culture because American culture is different from Ethiopian culture. For some Ethiopian people is easy, they actually adopt American culture. today, it is going to be hard to leave and to come in the United States as immigrant because of the new president of The United States, Donald Trump. There are two differences between Ethiopian and American culture such as, have a right to speak and how they are respect the elders.

    Read More

  • The Significance of Marriage in "Bone"

    1517 Words  | 4 Pages

    Family became an important aspect in Mah’s life. In the Chinese culture family is typically a vital part of the way of life. Mah may have been ashamed the way her first marriage ended and did not want the same with this man she met named Leon. Leon is a Chinese immigrant and family is his priority. Mah and Leon marry and have two girls, Ona and Nina. They form a family like connection more than ever before. Leon was a fairly stable man and loved his family. Mah and Leon were b...

    Read More

  • Migration And Migration

    1134 Words  | 3 Pages

    The concept diaspora was derived from Greek and means the migration, movement, or scattering of people from their homeland that share the some links or common cultural elements to a home whether real or imagined. The reason why the term ‘diaspora’ is important to understand and is useful because it refers not only because its linked and refers to globalization, linking and connecting place, social consequences of migration, but also, to a form of consciousness and an awareness of home at a more personal level. The feelings, relationships and identities that is often very deeply meaningful to migrants. (Raghuram and Erel, 2014, p. 153 -

    Read More

  • Americanization on the Chinese in Mrs. Spring Fragrance by Sui Sin Far

    449 Words  | 1 Pages

    In the beginning of the story, the author describes the Chin Yuen's as American in appearance yet Chinese in customs. Throughout the story she continues to describe the deterioration of the Chinese customs by American ideal. This is pinpointed when Mr. Chin Yuen decides to let his daughter marry the boy that she loves. The conversation that Mr. Spring Fragrance has with Young Carman explains that only in American culture is it customary to find love before marriage; in the Chinese tradition, all marriages are arranged. This clearly exemplifies the manner in which the Chinese characters are more and more disregarding their Chinese culture and taking on this new American standard of living. Ironically, Sui Sin Far conveys the notion that the American tradition is not necessarily better than the Chinese tradition. More so she demonstrates the struggle of identity between two worlds that both make sense. Though Laura and Kai Tzu have found their happiness in the American tradition of marriage, the reader discovers that Mr. and Mrs. Spring Fragrance are equally as happy even through the Chinese tradition of marriage.

    Read More

  • The Brass Plaques of the Benin Palace

    2152 Words  | 5 Pages

    The first step to understanding the response of the Benin people to this arrival is to look to their conception of their own identity. The Benin call themselves, their capital, and their language Edo, and some Edo can rightfully claim to have lived in the region for a thousand years. When speaking of Benin, the idea of a "traditional" culture is not wholly erroneous - their ancestry is older and on a more direct line than most Europeans can imagine. But the ancient kingdom of Benin did not encompass all Edo-speaking people and it was also not restricted to them, as it included ethnic groups such as the Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, and Itsekiri (Duchateau 9). The amount of racial cohesion in this "traditional culture" should no...

    Read More

  • Anthills of the Savannah: Governing for Failure

    1820 Words  | 4 Pages

    Nigeria contains more historic cultures and empires than any other country in Africa. People were first known to inhabit Nigeria as early as 5 B.C. They first constructed a kingdom in the center of Nigeria, which is named Jos Plateau. This was the first of many widespread kingdoms of that region, but two centuries later it would extend to Bornu, which is located on the western region of Nigeria (Gascoigne 1). Nigeria was made up of mostly kingdoms until British colonized in the 1800’s. The Soko Jotojhad and Yotruba wars encouraged slave trade at the time the British were trying to abolish the slave trade. Slaves were normally traded for European goods such as guns and gun powder. At this time, the British encouraged trading palm oil over trading slaves. Many of the slaves that were exported to Britain were intercepted by naval ships and shipped to Sierra Leone to collect palm oil. Some Nigerians began to migrate back from Sierra Leone in search of their homes and trade. British missionaries were invited to follow the slaves back, and in the 1840’s they wer...

    Read More

  • History and Uniqueness of the Culture of Nigeria

    1493 Words  | 3 Pages

    The first known human remains within the Nigerian region was found to be dated within the Last Stone Age (around 10000 BCE and 2000 BCE); they were called the Iron Age-Nok people. Between the pass of time, many different groups of people have migrated into and immigrated out of this land. The early societies that had settled down within this area were decentralized and focused on small villages or village groups. However, by the end of the first millennium CE, through social interactions and trade with their neighboring groups, societies began to develop more centralized state structures based on kingship.

    Read More

  • Indonesia Tourism Essay

    1678 Words  | 4 Pages

    Yogyakarta is the last region in Indonesia which still formed a Sultanate. Yogyakarta is famous with the transportation like becak and andhong, traditional transportation that still used horse as the energy. Malioboro also the heaven of shoppers, with a lot of fashion like batik and another Indonesian traditional foods and handicrafts.

    Read More

  • Essay On Indian Civilization

    727 Words  | 2 Pages

    Around 3500 BCE, the first tribes of India began to settle in the Indus River Valley. Much

    Read More

  • Themes Of Diaspora In An American Brat

    1472 Words  | 3 Pages

    The term “Diaspora” is used to refer either to singular person or ethnic population forced or induced to leave their traditional ethnic homelands being dispersed throughout other parts of the world, and the ensuing developments in their dispersal and culture. In the beginning, the term was used by the Ancient Greeks to refer to citizens of a grand city who migrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization to assimilate the territory into the empire. A large number of Indians migrated to Far East and South East Asia to spread Buddhism during the ancient times. The migration was a history of misery, deprivation and sorrow during the colonial period. In this century the migration was mainly due to the industrialized and

    Read More

More about Origin Of Baba And Nyonya

Open Document