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Hokkien Americans
河洛美國儂, 福建美國儂
Hok ló bí kok lâng, Hok kiàn bí kok lâng
Total population
70,000–200,000 (Taiwanese) (2009)
Regions with significant populations
California, New York City
Languages
American English, Hokkien, Teochew, Mandarin
Religion
Buddhism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion, Christianity, Confucianism, Atheism
Related ethnic groups
Hoklo people, Chinese Americans, Taiwanese Americans
Andrew Yang, New York City mayoral candidate in 2021, of Taiwanese Hokkien descent[1]

Hokkien, Hoklo (Holo), and Minnan people are found in the United States. The Hoklo people are a Han Chinese subgroup with ancestral roots in Southern Fujian and Eastern Guangdong, particularly around the modern prefecture-level cities of Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, and Xiamen, along with the Chaoshan region. They are also known by various endonyms (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hok-ló-lâng / Hō-ló-lâng / Ho̍h-ló-lâng / Hô-ló-lâng), or other related terms such as Hoklo people (河洛儂), Banlam (Minnan) people (閩南儂; Bân-lâm-lâng), Hokkien people (福建儂; Hok-kiàn-lâng) or Teochew people (潮州人;Tiê-tsiu-lâng). These people usually also have roots in the Hokkien diaspora in Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia,[2] Indonesia, Singapore, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

Groups

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Taiwan

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See also: Taiwanese Americans

Although around 70% of Taiwanese people in Taiwan are Hoklo, there are slightly more Taiwanese Americans who are Waishengren (descended from those who came to Taiwan with the KMT) most of whom are not Hoklo.[3][4] Furthermore, Hoklo and Hakka Han people who have roots in Taiwan from before 1945 (Benshengren) are more likely to identify as "Taiwanese".[5] American Community Survey program of the United States Census Bureau reported that 200,000 Americans identify as "Taiwanese Hoklo people" and 70,000 speak Taiwanese Hokkien at home.

Southeast Asia

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See also: Indonesian Americans, Filipino Americans, Singaporean Americans, Malaysian Americans, Burmese Americans, Cambodian Americans, and Vietnamese Americans

The first Indonesians to move to Southern California were Indos (Indonesians of mixed pribumi and European descent).[6] However, the majority of Indonesians who came in the 1960s were of Chinese descent.[7] Unofficial estimates suggest that as many as 50% of the Indonesians in Southern California are of Chinese descent, and around 50% of the ethnic Chinese population in Indonesia is Hoklo.[8]

Chinese Filipinos are one of the largest overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia.[9] Mestizos de Sangley—Filipinos with at least some Chinese ancestry—comprise 18-27% of the Philippine population, totaling up to 30 million people.[10][11] There are approximately 2 million Filipinos with pure Chinese ancestry, or around 2.5% of the population.[12] Minnan peoples are more popularly known as "Hokkienese", or "Southern Fujianese" in English, or Lan-nang, Lán-lâng, Bân-lâm, Minnan in Chinese. The Minnan form 98.7% of all unmixed ethnic Chinese in the Philippines. Of the Minnan peoples, about 75% are from Quanzhou prefecture (specifically, Jinjiang City), 23% are from Zhangzhou prefecture, and 2% are from Xiamen City.[13]

Teochew people and Hainanese people may occasionally be included as Minnan people.[14]

History

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Some coolies and laborers in Hawaii during the 1800s were from southern Fukien.[15] There is a Hoklo cemetery in the Pauoa Valley in Honolulu.

Researchers have looked upon the patterns of immigration of Filipinos to the United States and have recognized four significant waves. The first was connected to the period when the Philippines was part of New Spain and later the Spanish East Indies; Filipinos, via the Manila galleons, would migrate to North America.

The second wave was during the period when the Philippines were a territory of the United States; as U.S. Nationals, Filipinos were unrestricted from immigrating to the US by the Immigration Act of 1917 that restricted other Asians. This wave of immigration has been referred to as the manong generation.[16][17][18] Filipinos of this wave came for different reasons, but the majority were laborers, predominantly Ilocano and Visayan. This wave of immigration was distinct from other Asian Americans, due to American influences, and education, in the Philippines; thefore they did not see themselves as aliens when they immigrated to the United States.[19] During the Great Depression, Filipino Americans were also affected, losing jobs, and being the target of race-based violence.[20] This wave of immigration ended due to the Philippine Independence Act in 1934, which restricted immigration to 50 persons a year.

Some Hokkien people in the Philippines adopted romanized Hokkien surnames during Spanish colonial times, many of which end with "-co" (Chinese: 哥; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko; lit. 'older brother'), an honorific suffix that used to be used by Hokkien Chinese Filipinos appended to the end of their Hokkien Chinese given name. Many also end with "-son" and "-zon" (Chinese: 孫; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sun; lit. 'grandson') because the surname was a romanized Hokkien word that described which line of descendants the patriarch was from, either through birth order or which generation from their Hokkien-speaking ancestor. Some of these surnames were also brought to America.[21]

Hoklo Taiwanese people are about 70% of the population of Taiwan, but the first wave of Taiwanese immigrants to America were mostly Waishengren, most of whom were not Hoklo. Hoklo people started immigrating in larger numbers after the 1960s.[22]

Notable people

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References

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  2. ^ Simon J. Bronner, Cindy Dell Clark (ed.). Youth Cultures in America [2 volumes]. p. 652.
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  4. ^ Linda Gail Arrigo. "Patterns of Personal and Political Life Among Taiwanese-Americans" (PDF). taiwaneseamericanhistory.org. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
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  6. ^ Cunningham 2009, p. 97
  7. ^ Yang 2001, p. 899
  8. ^ 2009, p. 95
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  15. ^ "The First Chinese Contract Laborers in Hawaii, 1852" (PDF). Evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
  16. ^ "Filipino American History". Northern California Pilipino American Student Organization. California State University, Chico. January 29, 1998. Retrieved June 7, 2011. These Filipino pioneers were known as the "manong generation" since most of them came from Ilokos Sur, Iloilo, and Cavite in the Philippines.
  17. ^ "Learn about our culture". Filipino Student Association. Saint Louis University. Retrieved June 7, 2011. These Filipino pioneers were known as the "manong generation" since most of them came from Ilokos Sur, Iloilo, and Cavite in the Philippines.
  18. ^ Jackson, Yo (2006). Encyclopedia of multicultural psychology. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-4129-0948-8. Retrieved June 7, 2011. Included in this group were Pensionados, Sakadas, Alaskeros, and Manongs primarily from the Illocos and Visayas regions. "
  19. ^ Starr, Kevin (2009). Golden dreams: California in an age of abundance, 1950–1963. New York: Oxford University Press US. p. 450. ISBN 978-0-19-515377-4. Retrieved April 27, 2011. They were, however, officially under the protection of the United States, which governed the Philippines, and herein they took a distinctive characteristics. First of all, they had been inculcated in the Philippines, through the American-sponsored education system and through the general point of view of a colonial society strongly under American influence, in the belief that all men were created equal, in fact and under the law, and that included them. Second, they spoke English, excellently in many cases, thanks once again to the American sponsored educational system in the Philippines. Filipino migrant workers did not see themselves as aliens. "
  20. ^ Austin, Joe; Michael Willard (1998). Generations of youth: youth cultures and history in twentieth-century America. New York: NYU Press. pp. 118–135. ISBN 978-0-8147-0646-6. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
  21. ^ Woo Louie, Emma. Chinese American Names: Tradition and Transition. p. 41.
  22. ^ Lai, Him Mark. Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions. p. 243
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  26. ^ a b Chua, Amy (2011). Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Penguin Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-59420-284-1.
  27. ^ "陈志坚当选美国科学院院士" (in Chinese). Fujian Association for Science and Technology. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
  28. ^ "My life: Janet Hsieh". M.scmp.com. March 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  29. ^ a b Chinese Americans: The History and Culture of a People
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Bibliography

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