"... with the numerous Eurasian organizations all over the country portraying a Eurasian cause which is actually 100% adopting Portuguese Culture and heritage."
- Portuguese Eurasian at Malacca


"... for the Eurasian to actively participate and contribute to the Portuguese cause they must first acknowledge their roots and be proud to be identified as part of the Portuguese Community and address themselves as 'Kristangs' (Another term for the Malacca Portuguese)."
- Portuguese Eurasian at Malacca


"Dutch Eurasians didn't have their own culture, but had been assimilated into the Portuguese community and didn't have nor want to have their own cultural identity"
- Malaysian Eurasian at The Hague


"There is no such thing as Dutch Eurasians because they all have married Portuguese Eurasians and have been assimilated into the Portuguese community"
- Portuguese Eurasian at Malacca


"All Dutch men moved back to Indonesia after Malacca fell to the British. Those Eurasians in Malacca who have Dutch names are all actually Portuguese who changed their names to Dutch sounding names during the Dutch era"
- Malaysian Eurasian at Melboune, Australia


"Despite having Dutch, English, Spanish surnames by the Eurasians in Malaysia.... they all had been assimilated into the Malacca Portuguese community, accepting Malacca Portuguese culture heritage as theirs. The only thing left thats non Portuguese is in their surnames, nothing more."
- Portuguese Eurasian via e-mail


"You must be the only Dutch Eurasian left"
- Malacca Political Figure



Malaysian Dutch Descendants - the forgotten people


“I am conscious of the fact that if, a couple of hundred years ago, an ancestor of mine had decided to join the Dutch East India Company - as did many respectable Europeans in search of adventure, or simply intent on landing a good job as their counterparts today might opt for a British merchant bank - today I could have been that white [Dutch Burgher] boy in a sarong“
- Riccardo Orizio, Lost White Tribes, Journeys Among The Forgotten.