Many Portuguese men intermarried Creole women, their children easily merged with the other Creole population. Many Chinese men also intermarried or established sexual relationships with Creole women. At the beginning, Interracial marriage with Chinese men are and not common at first. In 1870's and was viewed more negatively than Portuguese men marrying Creole women, so that the Chinese population remained mostly racially pure. Chinese men interracial marriages became increasily more common. The significant changes on how Creole women began to view Chinese men as desirable partners led to a higher increase of intermarriage. Due to the scarcity of Chinese women, Kirke in 1897 had obersed that Chinese males in Guyana like to either mate or mixing with Creole women, and has the prettiest colourered women as concubines. As a resulf of continue intermixing 80% of the Chinese-Guyana look scarely Chinese with only few characteristics facial features of Chinese.