Amerasian
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- noun
- /ˌæməˈreɪʒən/
- It was positively eerie: several hundred teenagers and young adults, a disproportionate number of them Black Amerasian, stared at us as if we were their fathers.
- Amerasians will come
Examples
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He is the first person I've ever heard use the term Amerasian.
Fiction book (2000) -
"In her article, Grant dwells upon the Amerasians who profess their loyalty to the United States in a Chicago accent.
Academic text (1990) -
The murdered women's children were all Amerasian.
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I am talking about the Amerasians, children born out of wedlock from many American service men and a mother from that country.
Blog text (26) -
So Mr. Chen-Bollen, you may call me Amerasian if you like, but those two words are a little too smoothly blended into one to describe what it's always been like for me being not quite Asian, not quite white.
Fiction book (2000) -
The media portrayed the products of these unions, the Amerasians, as caged animals who were abandoned by their unfeeling mothers and missing-in-action fathers.
Academic text (2009) -
They had a special affinity for those children fathered by American army and civilian personnel (referred to as Amerasians).
Academic text (2009) -
So, in order to soothe their conscience and fulfill a sense of obligation to those fathered by their countrymen, Americans advocated for the adoption of Amerasians.
Academic text (2009) -
Jenny is proud to be an Amerasian, with her American father and Vietnamese mother.
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During the war, many Amerasians faced challenges due to their mixed heritage.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Amerasian is a mix of American and Asian, so an Amerasian is a person with 'one American parent and one Asian parent', a term often used for children born during or after times when the United States had a military presence in Asia.