Macau people

Macau people (Chinese: 澳門人) are people who originate from or live in Macau.

Macau people
Regions with significant populations
 Macau642,753 (2019)[1]
 China50,000
 Hong Kong10,000
 South Korea5,000
 United States3,000
 Japan2,000
 Australia1,000
Languages
Cantonese (native language), Mandarin, English (majority)
Portuguese, Macanese (minority)
Religion
Non-religious with Chinese folk religion, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity and other faiths
Related ethnic groups
Cantonese people, Hong Kong people, Hakka people, Tanka people
Macau people
Chinese澳門人

Besides their use to refer to Macau residents, these terms may also be used more loosely to refer to those who may not be residents, but have lived in the city for an extensive period of time or have a strong cultural connection with Macau. Macau people do not comprise one particular ethnicity, and people that live in Macau are independent of Chinese citizenship and residency status. The majority of Macau people are of Chinese descent and are ethnic Han Chinese (with most having ancestral roots in the province of Guangdong). A group of Macau people with some Portuguese ancestry are known as the Macanese.[2]

Name

The term "澳門人" (meaning Macanese) and "土生葡人" (meaning native-born Portuguese people) in Chinese (Cantonese), the lingua franca of Macau, refers to the Macau people and the Macanese people, respectively. Although there have been attempts by the Portuguese Macau government in the mid-1990s to redefine the Portuguese and English term "Macanese" as Macau Permanent Resident (anyone born in Macau regardless of ethnicity, language, religion or nationality), in accordance with the Chinese (Cantonese) usage, it didn't succeed.[3] Consequently, the Portuguese and English term "Macanese" refers neither to the indigenous people of Macau (Tanka people) nor to the demonym of Macau, but to a distinctive minority culture (1.2% of all Macau population) that Macau people are proud of.

See also

References
  1. 2018 Demographics
  2. "What are the characteristics of Macanese people?". Macau Daily Times. 10 October 2012. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  3. Clayton, Cathryn H. (2010). Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau & the Question of Chineseness. Harvard University Press. pp. 110-113. ISBN 978-0674035454.


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