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What about the ABCs? American-born Chinese. They took hyphenation themselves to a whole new level by turning around and shortening their self-identification to three letters!
American is not an ethnicity, it's kind of like the word Hispanic when used alone, not as specific
using your ethnicity before American has more of an Identity in my opinion
the word American is more of a culture not an ethnicty, I would rather claim US citizenship than call myself an American, lots of people have become naturalized US citizens but they are not born here, so it's better for them to claim US citizen instead of American.
to me American is like saying your a "Heinz 57" mixed breed, I guess if your mixed with multiple ethnic groups American makes more sense, kinda like the word Mexican a mixture of races
A quadroon is an old term for a person who is one-quarter black; obviously, an octoroon is therefore a term for a person who is one-eighth black. I have never heard the terms used in real life, only in books that are written or take place in the nineteenth century.
Thank you for explaining this to me. It's a good thing we've gotten rid of some labels.
Most of the names around the world that associate people with their native countries are actually derived from the name of the country. For example:
Canada - Canadian
Mexico - Mexican
Colombia - Colombian
Spain - Spanish
France - French
Russia - Russian
but then you have..
United States - American
It probably comes from America, as in "United States of America," since it's simpler and sounds better than calling them Uniteds or Statians or Uni-Statians or something else.
Someone mentioned naturalized citizens.... From what I've heard people from other countries say, the specific designation like (she's French or he's Spanish) only applies to native borns.... they consider others that settled in their country to be a separate category.
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