Culturally, there are those who have been baptized in their mother culture, the first generation emigrants still umbilically linked to their Chinese motherland, and there are the third and fourth generation ethnic Chinese who no longer speak the language.
在對中華文化的認同上，又可分為受過母文化洗禮、與中國臍帶相連的第一代華僑，及不說中文的第三、四代華裔。