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The word Peranakan is also used to describe Indonesian Chinese. In both Malay and Bahasa Indonesia 'Peranakan' means 'descendants'. Babas refer to the male descendants and the Nyonyas the female.
Most Peranakan are of Hokkien ancestry, although a fair denomination of them are of the Teochew or Cantonese descent. Whether there was ever any intermarriage with the indigenous MalayMalay people Malay can mean: The Malay language From or related to Malaysia Malay people See also Cape Malays, Malay nationalism Communes that begin with Malay in Yonne, France, Malay-le-Grand and Malay-le-Petit. people is a matter for debate: written records from the 19th and early 20th centuries show that Peranakan men usually took brides from within the local Peranakan community. Peranakan families also commonly imported brides from China and sent their daughters to China to find husbands. If a Chinese man took a Malay bride, he usually became assimilated into the Malay community and converted to Islam, rather than his bride remaining within the Peranakan community. The greatest proponent of the theory of intermarriage is Felix Chia who based his theory on minimal evidence.
By the middle of the Twentieth century, most Peranakan were English educated, as a result of the British colonisation of Malaya, and the natural propensity of these people to embrace new cultures. Because the Peranakans readily embraced English cutlure and education, administrative and civil service posts were often filled by prominent Straits Chinese. The Peranakan community thereby became very influential in Malacca and Singapore and were known also as the King's Chinese. Common vocations were as merchants, traders, and general intermediaries between China and the West.
The remains of the Baba Culture and its olden days nostalgia may be found on Heereen Street in Malacca, Malaysia, and in the Peranakan Museum in Singapore. There one can find museums displaying furnitures, foodwares, and even traditional clothes of the Baba and Nyanya.
The Peranakans have taken elements from both cultures, for instance from their Malay origin a unique (and very tasty) cuisine has developed making use of the abundant spices found in Malaysia (examples are Chicken Kapitan, a dry chicken curryThis article is about the dish. For the curry tree and its leaves, see the foot of this page. You might also be interested in the logician Haskell Curry and the procedure of currying named for him. A curry is any of a great variety of distinctively spiced, and Inchi Kabin, a Nyonya version of fried chicken). The women (Nyonyas) have taken to wearing the baju kebaya (a Malay dress, seen most notably as the uniform of Malaysia Airlines' female flight attendants). However, most of the Peranakans eschewed IslamCairo Egypt Islm (In Arabic: , "submission (to God)"; In Persian and Urdu: ) is a monotheistic faith and the world's second-largest religion. Followers of Islam, known as Muslims believe that God (or, in Arabic, Allh revealed His Will to Muhammad (c., preferring the ancestral worship of the Chinese, although some have now converted to ChristianityChristian cross and its many variations are widely recognized as an ancient Christian symbol. Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament. Although Christians generally chara. The wedding ceremony of the Peranakan is mostly Chinese, and is one of the most fascinating wedding ceremonies in Malaysia.
Their language, Baba Malay, is a dialect of the Malay language, which contains many Hokkien words. It is a dying language and tends to be used only by members of the older generation still use it in daily life. In Singapore, the younger generation has been forced by government policies to learn Chinese instead of Malay; while in Malaysia, the rigorous standardisation of Malay has led to a disappearance of the unique characteristics of Baba Malay.
See also: Malaysian Chinese, Indonesian Chinese, Overseas Chinese
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