Mixed ethnicity is not necessarily so.

Peranakan Chinese = Straits-born Chinese.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Peranakan

it pays to read properly.

trojandude and rooney723

Both of you are correct, and I'm not trying to be conciliatory.

Am writing this as one who has Fujian ancestors of Chinese-Persian ethnicity who migrated to British Malaya along with their womenfolk (not as impoverished coolies) by way of sailing ship, and fell into the Peranakan way of life. Chinese-Malay lineage is not a prerequisite.

And I'm related by way of marriage to the late Prof Emeritus Khoo (not that it counts for anything). On the Bornean Hokkien side of the family, not one considers themselves to be "Peranakan"; I prefer to simplify matters and am quite content to be termed "Malaysian" or BolehLandian

Maybe this quip from the Singkie gahmen could further clarify matters:

https://www.nhb.gov.sg/peranakanmuseum/lear...-the-peranakans

And now i must put on a PH baseball cap and tend to matters...a state election looms!!
Moving along now....