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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1052365, member: 2844&quot;]Uhm, it is also a Dutch-Indonesian name.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> When it comes to surnames in island and coastal SE Asia, all bets are off.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> For instance, Dutch-Indonesians commonly have Indonesian, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Scottish, Swedish, Chinese and even Ghanaian surnames.</p><p>For centuries SE Asia was one of the major trade regions of the world, and what we would now call cosmopolitan. Marrying locals ensured good business contacts, and family relations with local nobility or translators, all important for a thriving trade, whatever your country of origin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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