ABSTRACT This paper examines how ethnic Chinese Indonesian college students from West Kalimantan classified others’ ethnic identity by drawing on perceptions of language and phenotype. Several studies have demonstrated the undeniable effect of phenotype on an individual’s perception of their own and others’ ethnic identit(ies). Additionally, numerous studies have highlighted the role of language in constructing and interpreting ethnic identity. However, until now, there have been no studies assessing the relationship between the perceptions of language and phenotype when making judgements on an individual’s ethnicity in Indonesia. Indonesia plays host to a large number of different ethnic groups, amongst whom, the ethnic Chinese are considered the most politically and socially controversial. The current study examines data from two sets of semi-structured interviews conducted with 24 Chinese Indonesian college students. The results showed that ethnic classifications were more likely to be language driven when participants perceived a binary correlation between language and ethnicity. However, when participants did not perceive an exclusive indexical relationship between language and ethnicity, phenotype was more significant in racial classifications.

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语言和表型对种族分类的影响

摘要 本文研究了来自西加里曼丹的印尼华裔大学生如何通过对语言和表型的感知对他人的种族身份进行分类。几项研究已经证明了表型对个人对自己和他人种族身份的看法的不可否认的影响。此外，许多研究强调了语言在构建和解释民族认同方面的作用。然而，到目前为止，还没有研究评估印度尼西亚在判断个人种族时对语言的感知与表型之间的关系。印度尼西亚拥有大量不同的民族，其中华人被认为是最具政治和社会争议的民族。当前的研究检查了对 24 名印尼华裔大学生进行的两组半结构化访谈的数据。结果表明，当参与者认为语言和种族之间存在二元相关性时，种族分类更有可能是由语言驱动的。然而，当参与者没有意识到语言和种族之间存在排他性的索引关系时，表型在种族分类中更为重要。