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Furthermore, the research highlighted that many interracial relationships and mixed heritage families in colonial Southeast Asia had complex and often undocumented histories. The romanticized idea of a beautiful European woman marrying a Chinese man on Banka Island was unlikely; instead, it was more probable that the family’s Eurasian features resulted from a blend of local and European ancestors, possibly via a Eurasian woman with European ancestry from Central or Northern Europe.