Overseas Chinese

My dad is from Aruba.

And then if you look further, you'll find African blood and, like, Indonesian and Chinese and, you know, a whole bunch of other different mixes.

Like, the first time I went to The first time I went to Chicago, uh, I was studying in Michigan, and I went to Chicago to meet a friend of mine, and we were going for a barbecue at her uncle Dick's, uh, farm.

And Uncle Dick, when he first, when he first met me, and she was explaining to him... 'Cause he's like, "Well, where's this kid from?" You know, I was still a kid at the time-ish.

As we had mentioned, Black Christmas was occurring in Hong Kong, and this event would coalesce Chinese volunteers in Singapore to formalize their resistance.

That day, the Singapore Overseas Chinese Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, officially known as the Dalforce, was established under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Dalley.

Dalforce emerged from urgent necessity.

As the Japanese invasion accelerated and British defenses were crumbling, recruitment of local Chinese volunteers escalated dramatically.