The indigenous people of Macau!

The indigenous people of Macau have unfortunately became an endangered species, the 'real' Macanese. This group of people are half Portuguese and Chinese.

Majority of these Macanese has migrated to all parts of the world, leaving a countable number of them left at Macau. In the present, the Macanese (People of Macau) consists of all sorts of races and religions. It comprises mainly the Chinese, follow by Filipinos and the rest with Europeans, Thais, Australians, Indonesians and so on. People from all parts of the world have migrated to Macau and became a Macanese.

People migrates to Macau are due to various reasons. Some of them love the unique culture over there and some migrated to order to get a better job with better wages in order to have better living conditions, not only for themselves, but also for their beloved ones, as compared to their homeland. Hence, Macau is known as a land of foreigners now.

This may be due to the fact that Macau lacks manpower too. Therefore it is a relatively favourable city for people from places like China, Philippine andIndonesia to migrate over to Macau, being foreign workers. This would not only benefit these people by having better living conditions but also helps to grow Macau's economy.

Most of the 'real' Macanese have Portuguese Father and Chinese Mother. This is because it is seem as a taboo to have Portuguese women to marry Chinese men. They are usually Catholics too. Moreover, the men had to go through military service.

Do you know that one of these 'real' Macanese is an artist?

She is Michelle Monique Reis (李嘉欣), an actress and model. Her father is a Portuguese and Mother a Chinese.

She married a tycoon, a Chinese Businessman. As you can see, although Portuguese women marrying Chinese men are seen as a taboo, she is a good example who still did too. Therefore, the culture of Macanese has been diluted due to various influences. For example, living in a modernised city (20th Century), having Internet-wide knowledge, Facebook socializing and twitter. All these made an influence of the authentic culture and mindset of race and religion.

The reduction of Macanese (Portuguese and Chinese) may due to reasons like lesser Portuguese man are marrying the Chinese and therefore decreasing the creation of new generations of Macanese and generations of Macanese had migrated overseas.