this question.........if your child was born in Australia, then you went back to UK and child was brought up there, would you still call your child Australian?

Reason i ask is my friend was born in Hong Kong, but moved back to UK when she was 8. She says she is English not Chinese, her parents are English and had been brought up as English, but was born in Hong Kong.

Is she Chinese or English??

My Understanding
I am English, as both my parents are English

She is English as both her parents are English but her kids will be half English half Chinese (Assuming she married/marries an Englishman)

But I may be wrong

i will leave it up to macy to decide i know a guy who was born in canada but he doesnt call himself canadian but does tell people he was born over there.

i was born in england(as you know)but brougt up in scotland consider myself scottish but im always being told that infact im english

Why will her kids be half chinese if they were born in UK with English parents?

It is a confusing one.

It just made me think that it depends on which country you were born in, how glamorous it sounds to say you are Australian rather than Chinese, when infact you are English.

My hubby was born here to English parents and moved back to the UK when he was about 4. Never considered himself Australian, even when he was applying for his passport. He only started calling himself Australian when guys at work kept calling him Pom He was always English with a bonus passport

She is whatever she wants to be.

My dad was born in Australia too, but never calls himself an Australian. He was brought up in UK from age of 9. He said the only Australians that exist at the moment are the Aboriginals.

I was born and raised in Canada to an Irish father and English mother. For the first 40 something years of my life I was Irish/English. Now we've moved to Australia I'm Canadian of Irish/English heritage.

My children are Canadian born to Canadian parents, but once they get their citizenship here they'll be Australian of Canadian heritage.

I'm Iranian ( with British PP), OH is English, our daughter was born in Germany, next year she would get her Aussie Citizenship.
So what is she then, she knows she's English even thought she wasnt born there.

Here's quite a big give away...

If your friend has slanty eyes and looks fairly asian then chances are she's Chinese. If slightly pasty with an English accent and looks a bit westerny then I think its safe to say she;s English.

Exactly...!

im bamboozled! lol

Im Scottish, hubby English, daughter was born in Scotland and lived there until she was 2 when we moved to Southern England - I tell my daughter she is Scottish, she is adamant that she is English - which I`ll let her off with as when she tries to talk"Scottish" she sounds like an Irishman

She would be whatever she wants to be I suppose, English, born in Hong Kong???????

Have you ever noticed though, on the Ethnic Questionaires we get when you apply for a new job for example that there is no such thing as English on the form, just White British or Other,

I always put English in the Other box,

eve

I would call her a Well travelled young lady, lucky devil!!!!!