Amerasian
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- adjective
- /ˌæməˈreɪʒən/
- The Philippines also has Asia's largest Eurasian and Amerasian population and has the largest American population outside of the U.S.
- Amerasian children
Examples
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Nevertheless, she grew dissatisfied with this purely domestic focus and expanded her efforts to rescue Amerasian children born in Asia for placement in American homes.
Academic text (2012) -
Otherwise, Tam, left behind with his mother, now in Bangkok, will suffer the fate of an Amerasian child.
Blog text (2) -
About a year ago, a young Amerasian child came to the mission, begging for help.
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I have a planeload of Amerasian children.
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The next day, we visited the American Transit Center, where Amerasian children await final clearance to leave for the U.S.
Fiction book (1991) -
I'm Reverend Polanski from the Amerasian Children's Mission in Vietnam.
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Vietnam also agreed to joint Vietnamese-American searches of wartime crash sites in an effort to help resolve the POW/MIA issue and announced a willingness to allow Amerasian children to emigrate to the United States.
Academic text (1992) -
By withdrawing from Cambodia and participating in the peace settlement, pledging further support on the POW/MIA problem, and allowing discussion on the Amerasian children emigration issue, Vietnam has shown a desire to cooperate with the United States and the international community.
Academic text (1992) -
Despite the lack of relations, limited contact between officials from both countries on a humanitarian level—seen in talks on POW/MIAs, Amerasian children, and Indochinese refugees—has been evident.
Academic text (1992) -
She is an Amerasian woman, proud of her unique heritage from both American and Asian roots.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Amerasian comes from putting together American and Asian, so the adjective means 'relating to people who have both American and Asian background'.