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The state sanctioned Chinese language literally does not have a word for "ethnicnically foreign permanent resident/citizen of China"
by xkcd-sucks 8y ago
The state sanctioned Chinese language literally does not have a word for "ethnicnically foreign permanent resident/citizen of China"
- thaumasiotes 8y agoThat would sound a little more convincing if you hadn't taken six words to define the concept in English.
- closeparen 8y ago“American” suffices over here. You need additional qualifiers to distinguish native-born from naturalized.
- hueving 8y ago"American" is the term in the US because it's not tied to ethnicity. "Chinese" is tied to ethnicity.
- yorwba 8y agoEnglish speakers may think of "Chinese" as an ethnicity, but it's different in Chinese. The default term is 中国人， which literally means "person from the middle country", which is quite obviously about nationality. If you want to talk about ethnicity, you'd use 汉人 for Han Chinese, 蒙古人 for Mongols and so on for any of the hundreds of Chinese ethnicities.