What’s your ethnicity? Where do your ancestors come from?

Mostly Chinese. Both of my grandmothers were adopted and never knew their ancestry. On my mom's side, her mom was orphaned during some war and raised by a poor Buddhist couple in Malaysia. My mom says she doesn't look fully Asian and might have some European in her but we really have no idea. She married my grandpa whose parents were originally from China but they settled in Malaysia as silver miners or something.

Not sure what happened on my dad's side but my grandma was taken in by a wealthy family in Hong Kong sometime in the 20s and eventually married my other grandpa. My dad's side of the family actually has a long family history book that dates the lives of our ancestors, and my great-great-grandfather was originally a Chinese businessman that came to Hong Kong to start another business and the rest is history.

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