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"AmerAsian" Is this a common word?

Papagayo

Papagayo

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I heard the term AmerAsian couple of times and I want to find out if it's commonly used term for mixed babies of American and Asian.

I guess it's used for babies that is mixed with American and Asian. I think it's kinda stupid, because American does not have specific ethnicity (spelling)..

I always tell my wife that our kid will have to choose "Other" when filling out an application that is asking for race..

p.s. My wife is white and I'm asian.

Here is pics of my Kid..


Caleb
 
I am 100% American from day 1. I am also 100% Asian. What you said about "Americans" not being an ethnicity seals the deal.

If you want a proper term, it's Asian American.
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
if you were born in America your AMERICAN end of story
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Right...
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Believe it or not, people from other cultures are different from you, and people whose parents are from different cultures are different from you. There's alot more to a person than the country where he or she was born. Why is that so difficult to comprehend?

AmerAsian sounds like an abbreviation of Asian American.. I've never heard it. Amerindian is used for natives in the Caribbean though... Amerindian tribes and so on.
 
Originally posted by: BarbeQueGuy
Its Korean War and Vietnam War Era terminology. Americans left quite a few babies behind.
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What he said. I first heard this term used in the early eighties to describe the children born to American GIs that served in Vietnam. Some got out before Saigon fell, many more did not, and they had a difficult time under the communists.

 
Hapa is the emerging term for half white half asian people. If you google for the term you can find all sorts of info about it. I should know, my dad is also asian and my mom is white 🙂
 
Originally posted by: elanarchist
Hapa is the emerging term for half white half asian people. If you google for the term you can find all sorts of info about it. I should know, my dad is also asian and my mom is white 🙂
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damn. . . i was gonna point out happa
 
Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
Originally posted by: Papagayo
Originally posted by: Mwilding
White != American...
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I agree with you..
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you're both maroons....

White could be English, Scottish, Danish, etc. etc. etc. White =/= American anymore than Yellow=Korean.
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I don't really care what "white" could be. America is really a melting pot consisting of many different races.
 
Congrats on the son! 😀

Where's my cigar? 😉


But seriously, in the United States, ethnicity terminology changes like fashion. What is considered a proper label one day is considered insensitive or inaccurate at a different time.

On top of that, people confuse nationality with ethnicity.

If you are born and raised in the United States, your nationality is American, but not your ethnicity.

In the USA, most folks that I know of mixed Caucasian & Asian ethnicity refer to themselves as Eurasian. Don't know anyone that refers to themselves as Amerasian, though I recall the media pushing the term back in the early 1990s.

Hope that helps.



Cheers, :beer:
PCM
 
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