 There is also a considerable number of white foreign expatriates living in Mauritius, about 8000 are from France and 2000 from South Africa.Along with the French European community, there is a small amount of British expatriates or people of British descent in Mauritius.Sino-Mauritians from the Hakka and other Chinese sub-ethnic/linguistic groups number around three percent of Mauritian society.While the government officially groups Mauritians in four ethnic groups