The hybrid Tsinoys : challenges of hybridity and homogeneity as sociocultural constructs among the Chinese in the Philippines / Juliet Lee Uytanlet ; foreword by Michael A. Rynkiewich. [electronic resource]

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Asbury Theological Seminary, 2014.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Chinese identities in Philippine history -- Cultural hybridity among postcolonial Philippine Chinese: theories on ethnic identity and hybridity -- Reconstructing identities: who are the Tsinoys today? -- Hybridity or homogeneity: analyzing the Tsinoy ethnic identity -- Mission among Chinese in the Philippines -- Conclusion and recommendation.

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 inches 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. (Publisher).

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