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Marc Sebastian Rerceretnam – Early Roman Catholics & Peranakans Part 2 | Chronicles of Old Singapore
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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Marc Sebastian Rerceretnam continues on the history of the Roman Catholic community in colonial Singapore. The Chinese converts rejected cultural norms such as wearing the pigtail while a mix of religious, cultural and economic factors led to the 1851 riots against the Catholics. But what continues to be relevant for Singapore today is how the Roman Catholics married people of different ethnicities, creating an early form of multiracialism during the colonial period.
Part 1 | https://youtu.be/ssEaCj88qnk
Part 2 | https://youtu.be/k0PDhV-Ivik
00:00 Philanthropy
09:50 Two Interracial Couples
15:47 Power Dynamics
18:24 Adoption
23:29 Cut off Our Pigtails!
25:29 1851 Anti-Catholic Riots
34:37 Bridging Racial Divides
Marc Sebastian Rerceretnam, A History of Immigrant Roman Catholics and Converts in Early Singapore 1832-1945 (2012).
https://www.amazon.sg/Immigrant-Catholics-Converts-Singapore-1832-1945/dp/0645236403
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