Talk:Aston Martin Vulcan/@comment-31044517-20180107190857/@comment-27736210-20180115134012

Interesting story!

Just for clarification, how old are you? You sound like an older fellow than myself... (I'm much less responsible; I don't have any heroic stories of helping disabled children).

By the way, my ethnicity (as far as I know) is 100% Han Chinese. It's a pretty mundane ethnicity, being the most common in the world.

But my ancestry does get a little interesting when the countries (of residence) are involved... (mainly on my Mother's side; I don't know much about my Father's ancestral roots apart from the fact that he's Shanghainese)

Basically, I live in Australia as an indirect result of World War 2. My Mother's Mother, ie my Maternal Grandmother, is ethnically Taiwanese-Chinese. Her family actually originated from Taiwan, during the Imperial Japanese Rule (I believe). Basically, they migrated from Taiwan to Indonesia during the early 19th-Century. They apparently had a baking business in Indonesia. Of course, Indonesian people at the time (and probably still nowadays) resented the Han Chinese Immigrants (a common resentment across the globe; especially in the US and Australia) because they were usually rich and "stole jobs". And, also at the time, the Dutch and the British had colonial control over Indonesia.

During World War 2, the Dutch were afraid that several residents of Indonesia with a Han or Japanese appearance could possibly be spies (or they may have had a risk of being recruited) for the Imperial Japanese Army. So, the Dutch military ended up escorting thousands of Taiwanese/Chinese/Dutch residents of Indonesia to a variety of Allied countries. One of them was Australia. Detainees were placed in "Internment Camps". These camps were scattered around Australia. Australia, as the desolated desert/island wasteland that it is, was the perfect place for stowing away unwanted faces for almost a decade. Locations chosen were far in-land and close to rural communities.

My own Maternal Great Grandparents were both placed in an Internment Camp in a place called Tatura, located in Victoria, Australia. They were kept there for 5 to 8 years. Taiwanese/Chinese/Japanese/Indonesian detainees were kept in a single camp. There were also German and Italian detainees; they were much more common and most of them were actually Australian nationals, not foreigners (they were called "aliens" at the time). These people were kept in other camps.

In the Internment Camp, my Maternal Great Grandparents gave birth to at least 2 children (I think my Maternal Grandmother has 2-3 siblings). My Maternal Grandmother was one of those children. Eventually, they were returned to Taiwan, which is weird because they were actually captured from Indonesia, instead. Apparently, my Grandmother spent her early childhood in Taiwan, and then spent her teen years in Indonesia, where she became a top-student (she was a school captain or something; she attended all-Chinese schools in Indonesia). She must have done some travelling after that because the man she married (my Maternal Grandfather) is Burmese Chinese (with Han ethnicity). My Mother was then born somewhere in Southern China, and then the family migrated back to Australia, where my Maternal Grandmother was born. My Maternal Grandparents then had two more children in Australia, a decade after my Mother's birth.

My Mother has a very Australian culture but she also has a very strong affiliation with Asian culture. However, her two much younger siblings are actually very Aussie; much like myself. They actually have very interesting lives; my Uncle (who is 9-years-younger than my mother) is a professional artist and he married an Australian-Macedonian woman and they have a 1-year-old daughter. My Aunt (who is 11-years-younger than my mother) was a professional lawyer until recently. My Aunt travelled to the United States of America for her degree, I believe (I also have relatives who permanently live in America; they are my Maternal Grandfather's 2 Nieces). She then began to work for the United Nations and was an official lawyer working on a Khmer Rouge project in Cambodia; there, she met her future husband, an Ethnically Cambodia French National. They actually ran a "Justice Cafe" (a public library with a cafe that was focused on Human Rights issues) in Cambodia for a few months, and I also visited that place two years ago. Now, my Aunt and Uncle-in-Law have a son who is less than a month old. And they are currently living in Australia with my Maternal Grandparents, but I think they plan to go back to France, where my Uncle-in-Law was born.

Through my Uncle-in-Law, I'm apparently related to this guy:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaufea_Veang_Thiounn