Do the Chinese in Southeast Asian colonies have the same function as the Semu people?

Semu people, that is, foreigners, are the collective names of all ethnic groups in western China in the Yuan Dynasty, and they are one of the fourth-class people in the Yuan Dynasty. All non-Mongolians, Han people and southerners are regarded as semu people. Semu people's status is lower than that of Mongols and higher than that of Han people and southerners. Liao Qidan, Jin Ren, Xixia, Tubo, Sogdian and others are Semu people. Not since the Yuan Dynasty, and the Mongols are no longer rulers.

In the British colonies in Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines in Spain and Indonesia in the Dutch colony, the Chinese there were basically immigrants from the Lower Nanyang era (mostly from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty), all from the coastal areas of Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang, and they were moved to make a living. Later, some people became rich in business.

They are not the same thing.