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Chinese Mauritian
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Chinese Mauritian or Sino-Mauritian are overseas Chinese who reside in Mauritius. Most are descendants of Chinese of Hakka descent who arrived between the 17th century|17th and 19th century|19th centuries. The majority of them used their original language Hak-ka-fa/-va 客家語, (or Hak-fa/-va 客語) although a smaller number spoke Cantonese. They are mostly descendant of immigrants to Mauritius from Guangdong province (Meixian, mostly) and have transited through Hong Kong. The British Authorities in Hong Kong made documents for these travellers based on what the latter tell them: name, age, place of birth, etc. Before this, the emigrants had little or no papers were obviously used for all official purposes including declaring new borns.
Using the full Chinese name of the male head of family or a respected ancestor who led the family to denote the family name is a result of an administrative procedure that had been widely used in British India. (e.g. Muthu s/o Lingham) The practice were standardised to include Chinese Mauritian into the system had resulted to unique naming of the Chinese not found outside of Mauritius.
The majorty of the Chinese Mauritians claim to be Christian because there tend to be favouritism for the Christians. As a Christian be in by name or a practicising Christian, one has a higher chance of getting a place in jobs etc.(Catholic, although their ancestor were of Buddhist or Taoist and, typically, a syncretic Chinese religion incorporating elements of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and traditional ancestor worship.
Category:Overseas Chinese groups|Mauritian
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