other eurasians in singapore have parents or are descended from individuals who originated from various parts of western europe and its former colonies such as in the americas, australia, new zealand, south africa or elsewhere. there are also some filipino people of partial spanish descent. former nominated member of parliament eunice olsen's father is of swedish and portuguese descent. his grandfather married a chinese woman in shanghai and brought her to singapore. geraldene lowe's mother’s family was called luth and came from schleswig-holstein, then part of denmark. during bismarck’s unification of germany, they headed to asia and australia and married people from various nationalities.