The Hybrid Tsinoys: Challenges of Hybridity and Homogeneity as Sociocultural Constructs Among the Chinese in the Philippines - Paperback

by Juliet Lee Uytanlet (Author), Michael Rynkiewich (Foreword by)

The Hybrid Tsinoys is a study of hybridity and homogeneity as sociocultural constructs in the development of current ethnic identity/ies of Chinese Filipinos. This study employs a descriptive ethnographic research method to discover how they see or define themselves in terms of ethnicity (Chinese, Filipino, or both) and how their perspectives affect other aspects of their lives (language, marriage, and family). The research proposes that there are different kinds of Chinese Filipinos as evidenced in the six classifications in chapter 4. Further, most of them have constructed a hybrid culture exclusively and uniquely their own. On the one hand, they are still attached to their cultural roots; on the other hand, they cannot evade the fact that they are influenced by their host country and the present global and migratory age we live in. Second-, third-, and fourth-generation Chinese Filipinos demonstrate their hybridity in language and mindset. This dissertation also lays out some challenges in relation to doing mission among them.

Author Biography

Juliet Lee Uytanlet finished her PhD in Intercultural Studies in 2014 at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. She and her husband, Samson L. Uytanlet, are currently faculty of Biblical Seminary of the Philippines. She teaches Global Missions and Urban Missions.