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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9428182, member: 2844&quot;]Shangas, I don&#039;t disagree with you, and you should know that by now, I am just looking at the historical meaning.</p><p>As I said, things change. Meanings of words as they are understood from one generation to another and more, change. This change is also adapted in legal language.</p><p><br /></p><p>Peranakan doesn&#039;t literally mean offspring or descendant, that is an interpretation of the word.</p><p>Anak means child (offspring), and the prefix per- and suffix -an are added to mean pertaining to (a) child. At least that is how it is constructed in Indonesian, and most probably in Malay as well.</p><p>So Peranakan is anything pertaining to a child. Ideally it should be specified. But it is just a word, the meaning is an interpretation.</p><p>And as I said, in legal terminology, the term Peranakan without an addition, like for instance Tionghoa, used to be the term for mixed Indo-Malay and European, and it is now used for people of mixed Indo-Malay and Chinese.</p><p>The last bit is also what you said, so, grammar aside, we agree.</p><p>It does not change the identity of either group, it is just terms, words.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another confusing term: The word &#039;totok&#039; (full blood, whatever that may mean<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />) used to be used for both Europeans who were born in Europe, and for Chinese born in China.</p><p>Singkeh was of course also used, more precisely when referring to the Chinese nationality, just like Belanda for Dutch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Marriage didn&#039;t always come into the mix, btw, for either mixed group. The history of the Indo-Malay world is complicated, but that is another story.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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