My ex was "Javanese", she bought a Chinese owned resale flat and when she went to sell it the bloody HDB said she could only sell it to other Malays. It's shite as far as I am concerned as it really impacted the value.malcontent wrote: ↑Wed, 09 Dec 2020 6:08 pmThis topic was started on an unrelated thread. Here is the question, what race should one choose if they are able to pick either Eurasian, Caucasian-Chinese or Chinese-Caucasian?
For self-help groups, there is quite a difference between Eurasian ECF and Chinese CDAC. I guess Caucasian-Chinese would not attract contributions for any self-help group? I guess you can always opt out anyway, so maybe it’s not really a major point of consideration.
For the purposes of HBD ethnic quotas, I believe Eurasian & Caucasian-Chinese are both considered ‘Others’ and Chinese-Caucasian is considered Chinese. I have heard that a Chinese owned HDB is easier to sell, and sometimes gets a higher price. But when the buyer is Others, can they only buy from Others, or it depends on how full the quota is for that block? I have seen some blocks in popular city fringe areas that say Chinese quota is full, does that mean Others still have a chance? How about when buying BTO?
I had to look this up. It sounds very similar to the Anglo Indian classification in India.PNGMK wrote: ↑Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:57 pmI would be really careful picking Eurasian. It's a protected race to some extent and I've seen Chinese/European couples try to use it and run afoul of rules around it.
A Eurasian here is a person of Eurasian descent.... not a recently made Chindian or MalayPutih.
My son has this issue (half white, half Javanese) and he simply went with his father's race ('caucasian') as he passes for that anyways.
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