Let's Talk About Chinese People Around the World: What They Look Like, What They Speak, and What They Like to Do

There are quite a lot of Chinese people in the world, and they are everywhere. What do they look like? Most still have Asian features, black hair, and yellow skin. However, some have been immigrants for several generations, intermarried with locals, and their children look a bit mixed-race, with facial features that appear more 'international.' For example, in places like Malaysia and Singapore, many ethnic Chinese intermarry with locals, so their faces carry a bit of a local feel.

Now let's talk about language. Some Chinese people can speak Mandarin and also dialects such as Cantonese, Hokkien, and so on. But for many Chinese, their daily language is actually the local language. For instance, children in Canada speak English from a young age and are not very good at Chinese. In France, some Chinese families speak Wenzhounese or Teochew at home, but they use French when going out. Chinese in Southeast Asia are even more impressive—they can speak Malay, Thai, plus Chinese dialects, mixing several together.

Honestly, there is a big difference between the first and second generations of Chinese. First-generation immigrants generally retain Chinese and their dialects, but by the second and third generations, their Chinese gradually weakens, and some can't even write Chinese. That's quite normal, after all, they live there.