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Kathy456 Posted 19 years ago
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Any Difference between "American Chinese" and "Chinese American"

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002. how you call a person with mixed races if you know their parents' races02br
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003. how you call a person with mixed races if you don't know their parents' races. In other words, is there some word which is generic to describe people of mixed races? Is it offensive to use that word (if any)?02br
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0 A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. 02br 00An American Chinese is a Chinese who is of ethnic American descent. 0-

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  • 0 A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent.
  • 02br 00An American Chinese is a Chinese who is of ethnic American descent.
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0 A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. 02br
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00I have a second comment. I know that Chinese people say 'He's a Chinese', but in my experience N. American non-Chinese s
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01cite10Stanley200812cite10A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. 12br
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10I could be wrong but the term "Chinese American" does not differentiate whether one is born in the U.S. or on Chinese land
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0 The first of two nationality words is adjectival, modifying the second word, a noun. So a Chinese American is an American citizen who happens to be of Chinese heritage. Since American is not really an ethnicity, it's hard to imagine what an American Chinese would be. I suppose it would be a citizen of China who came originally from America. I've never met such a person, but then I don
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01cite10Clive12cite10I know that Chinese people say 'He's a Chinese', but in my experience N. American non-Chinese speakers almost never say this. They don't use the word 'Chinese' as a noun. Instead, they'd say something like 'He's a Chinese person'.12br
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10I think in general (not a rule though) w
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Any difference between American Chinese and Chinese American?
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I'm a Malaysian Chinese.....I was born in Malaysia but a Chinese so I guess that applies to American Chinese too?? Correct me if I'm wrong


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