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The MacaneseWithin a few generations, the Macanese will cease to exist, if they have to leave the land that served as their cradle. A human group of small size, but with its own indisputable collective identity, its disappearance would be an irreparable loss to Macau, which would become a vulgar place, monotonously the same as so many of its neighbours. In fact, all of humanity would suffer because it would lose a part of itself that, though small, is a part, and a valuable synthesis, of the universal whole. The Macanese Community still residing in Macau actually suffers the purge of an unavoidable and fatal exile. It will, inexorably, become a Diaspora . Still, distant from their native and self-identifiable habitat and having to submit to novel living conditions and to the demands of their new Countries, we truly believe that the Macanese will always express their notable character of adaptability, maintaining their Cultural ‘identity’ distinct from the Portuguese and the Chinese, and recovering their hybrid facets as identifiable traits of personality and individuality. |
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