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Last night, I read the first couple of chapters of Clavell's "Noble House" (it's about European bankers and businessmen in Hong Kong and their intrigues going back centuries) and there's a character in it who's descended from a Scottish pirate/merchant prince (at different points in his career) and a Chinese prostitute who comments about how both whites and Asians hate "Eurasians."

(And then there's the popular mistreatment of Amerasians after the fall of Saigon.)

So is it realistic at any point for a "Eurasian" identity to emerge and for them to try to make a claim for a homeland of their own?

(Assuming the situation is as bad as "Noble House"--a work of fiction set in the 1960s in any event--makes it sound.)

I don't think trying to maintain an independent Hong Kong in spite of Britain and mainland China is going to work--the British probably won't support it and the PRC can simply squash them, assuming there's even such an interest in the first place.

(I could imagine "Eurasians" being common in Hong Kong due to the long-term colonial rule there, but if they were the majority or even a very large minority, I would think this aspect of Hong Kong would be better-known.)
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