Newfoundlander
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- proper noun
- Members of a younger generation of Chinese, like Francis Tam and Bill Ping, are more likely to adopt a kind of creolized identity as Chinese Newfoundlanders rather than describing themselves either as "Chinese" or "Newfoundlander."
Examples
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They say you're not a real Newfoundlander till you've had a piece of seal-flipper pie.
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I am a Newfoundlander.
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I am proud of being a Newfoundlander as well.
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I'm doubly proud to be both a Canadian and a Newfoundlander.
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David Fong says, "I am a Newfoundlander first ... and Chinese second" (2011).
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His wife Amy Tam, a Caucasian Newfoundlander, comments, "Some people look at Francis and see 'Chinese,' while I am aware of his ethnicity, and I am not one of those who are 'color blind' when it comes to race and ethnicity. I don't see him as overly 'Chinese' because he was born and raised here."
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He is Chinese," immediately corrected Gilbert Wong, a customer and second-generation Chinese Newfoundlander who was born and raised in Botwood, a town in central Newfoundland (Hong and Wong 2009).
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As a proud Newfoundlander, she loves sharing stories of her hometown.
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Every Newfoundlander knows the importance of traditional music in their culture.
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After moving to Toronto for work, he still identifies as a Newfoundlander at heart.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Newfoundlander = Newfoundland (transparent) = Newfoundland + er
Formed from the place name plus the productive demonym suffix '-er' meaning 'a person from'.
Etymology
Newfoundlander names a person from Newfoundland, and the place name itself comes from the phrase 'new found land' used by early explorers. So a Newfoundlander is someone who comes from or lives on that island.