Eurasians
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The children born mostly of Chinese men and European women were called many things, most of them derogatory in the 19th and early 20th century as racial ideas asserted that the product of the mixing of races was nearly always bad. Eurasian is the most neutral term but half-caste was common.
Some children were sent back to China to be raised and to ensure they had a Chinese education. Male children were often freer to mix with the general community and again marry a European "with daughters marrying back into the Chinese community, often marrying Chinese men much older than themselves." [Robb, p,276]
"White women with mixed heritage children were often locked up and their children sent to the orphanage." [Robb, p.161.] In another aspect "the adoption of illegitimate mixed heritage Chinese children from women who had abandoned them in what is a hidden aspect of Chinese communities." [Robb, p.264]
Examples of people who were of mixed heritage are:
John Louie Hoon
William Liu
"For many families this is a hidden heritage as some generations did not reveal thier Chinese heritage to the next generation and this heritage is being rediscovered exploring family history.
Despite being Australian born for much of Australia's hisotry the treatment of such people depended on their looks. This was espcially the case when it came to travel and return to Australia. Any person of Chinese heritage wishing to return to Australia would either take out a CEDT just as any China born person did or ensure their Australian birth certificate was endorsed to facilitate this. See Dictation Test book [birth certificate from China]
"Children born from Chinese – Aboriginal relationships lived under constant threat of removal by authorities and severed from their cultural identity, both Aboriginal and Chinese." [p.239.]
