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English101 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
"Canadian Chinese", or "Chinese Canadians"?
0 When referring to people who are 01 u 00 Chinese (by origin 02 u 00 ), but are 01 u 00 Canadian citizens (by nationality 02 u 00 ), which one should I use: " 01 b 00 Canadian Chinese 02 b 00 ", or " 01 b 00 Chinese Canadians 02 b 00 "? 02 br
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00 Is there any difference between the two? 02 br
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00 How about those Canadians who have gained Chinese nationality having lived in China for a certain period of time. Can they be referred to as "Canadian Chinese"? 0-
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00 Is there any difference between the two? 02 br
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00 How about those Canadians who have gained Chinese nationality having lived in China for a certain period of time. Can they be referred to as "Canadian Chinese"? 0-
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02 br 02 br 00 We refer to them by saying Hungarians in Romania, Hungarians in Serbia, Hungarians in Slovakia, Hungarians in Ukran, etc. 0-
- 02 br 02 br 00 We refer to them by saying Hungarians in Romania, Hungarians in Serbia, Hungarians in Slovakia, Hungarians in Ukran, etc.
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0 matter of taste to me. 02 br
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00 After the Trianon Peace Treaty in 1920, Hungary has lost 65% percent of its territiories. 02 br
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00 Consequently, many Hungarians started to live in a country other than the one they lived in the day before. 02 br
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00 We refer to them by saying Hungarians in Romania, Hungarians in Serbia, Hungarians
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00 After the Trianon Peace Treaty in 1920, Hungary has lost 65% percent of its territiories. 02 br
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00 Consequently, many Hungarians started to live in a country other than the one they lived in the day before. 02 br
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00 We refer to them by saying Hungarians in Romania, Hungarians in Serbia, Hungarians
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0 As I understand it, the first term refers to ethnicity, the second to citizenship - hence Chinese Canadians if you are referring to Canadians of Chinese descent (similarly, African American) but Canadian Chinese if you are referring to people living in China of Canadian descent. 0-
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0 Hi Ruby Rose, 02 br
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00 I'm not quite sure anymore, that's why I have deleted my post. But your example with the African American makes my hypothesis sound correctly. 02 br
00 But it's confusing though, because you could also say: smbdy is a chinese with a canadian citizenship, hence he is a canadian chinese. However it also sounds correctly if we say: smbdy's a c
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00 I'm not quite sure anymore, that's why I have deleted my post. But your example with the African American makes my hypothesis sound correctly. 02 br
00 But it's confusing though, because you could also say: smbdy is a chinese with a canadian citizenship, hence he is a canadian chinese. However it also sounds correctly if we say: smbdy's a c
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0 I'm not sure that there is a definite pattern to follow. 02 br
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00 In most cases, I don't think people often define themselves in this way very often. It's not often that you have to define both someone's nationality and their ethnic origin in one go. It does seem to be a more common thing in America (all those African-Americans, Irish-Americans etc etc but I'd say that als
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00 In most cases, I don't think people often define themselves in this way very often. It's not often that you have to define both someone's nationality and their ethnic origin in one go. It does seem to be a more common thing in America (all those African-Americans, Irish-Americans etc etc but I'd say that als
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00 Nona, for what it's worth, my father feels that the hyphen is a barrier to community unity when it comes before the word -American. How many generations have to live somewhere before your just from "there." 02 br
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00 - from the eighth generation German-American and second generation Polish-American mixture. Or just "
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00 Nona, for what it's worth, my father feels that the hyphen is a barrier to community unity when it comes before the word -American. How many generations have to live somewhere before your just from "there." 02 br
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00 - from the eighth generation German-American and second generation Polish-American mixture. Or just "
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0 I agree with you and your dad 05 0 02 br
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00 Americans coming over here and saying 'I'm Irish' or 'I'm English' just because that's where their ancestors came from 100 years ago get right up people's noses over here. 010id 2
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00 Americans coming over here and saying 'I'm Irish' or 'I'm English' just because that's where their ancestors came from 100 years ago get right up people's noses over here. 010id 2
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