Will my surname be Chinese anymore in the future?

Question

I'm American born Chinese. My last name is Kwok. So if I marry lets say a Caucasian girl (I love white girls), and my kid wouldn't look fully Asian. So then my kid whose half half marries a Caucasian girl as well, and my grand children look White but got some Asian features and carry my last name. Would my last name still be considered Chinese?

The reason why I ask is because when people who aren't Chinese see my last name they don't think its Chinese. If its wong, lee, chan, or whatever people will hella recognize it to be Chinese. So if lets say for next 2 hundred years my name still lives on but the carrier is White, would his ethnicity still be Chinese? Or will he be considered American?

Thanks for reading.

I'm already an American but people still see me as Chinese only...

Answer 1

Your ethnicity is usually determined by what you are mostly, if you aren't half/half which is usually marked as bi-racial. By the 3rd or 4th generation the ethnicity would probably be put down as white, but they would be considered of Chinese ancestry, though they would be Americans. For example, I'm an American of English and German ancestry.

Answer 2

What a strange question! Surely someone is American first and has ancestry from somewhere else second? Apart from the indigenous Americans, everyone in the USA has ancestors from somewhere else, from all over the world.

You really need to get this fixation with race sorted in the USA. What do you mean by "wouldn't look fully Asian", what is "fully Asian? Yasser Arafat, Benazir Bhutto and Saddam Hussein are "fully Asian". Why do you think your offspring should look like them?

Your children will have Chinese ancestry and will be proud of it. They might also have European or African or American ancestry and will be equally proud of that. Your grandchildren might have very mixed ancestries and be proud of them all but they will be firstly American (unless they move somewhere else).

By the way, it is impossible to define races in humans. There are minor differences in appearance depending on where you come from but there is more genetic variation within any so-called race than there is between any of the so-called races. If you want your children and grandchildren to understand and respect your family traditions, teach them and they will probably keep them going in some form or another.

Answer 3

The ethnicity of the individual is based on parents, grand parents, and so forth
In the scenario you describe, eventually, your offspring would be considered white again, but the name (Kwok) would forever be a Chinese name.

Answer 4

Yeah probably. But thats if you dont have a baby daughter and she marries some dooshy white guy and she changes her name to a western name. You're American born chinese. Your child will be American born American. So yes, he/she will be consider American and ethnicity technically goes back to the begining of time way before you... and i dunno what ethnicity that is so =P

Answer 5

kwok is the first name of my cousin....

Answer 6

YOU'RE AN AMERICAN! DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE REST.

Answer 7

duh yeah. Kwok is Chinese.