For example, the overseas Chinese community in Southeast Asia is very complex and has always distinguished between Fujian, Guangdong, Chaoshan, Hainan and Hakka groups. Being the leader of the Fujian clique, Tan kept pushing his fellow Fujianese to donate more.
譬如南洋僑界複雜，素來分閩幫（福建）、粵幫（廣東）、潮汕、瓊州（海南島）及客幫（廣東梅縣）等等，陳嘉庚以閩幫僑領的身分，一再督促閩幫要多多捐款。