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Typically if you want to indicate that somebody is an immigrant in the US, you put the country of origin in the front. British-American or European-American wou
by bee_rider 2y ago
Typically if you want to indicate that somebody is an immigrant in the US, you put the country of origin in the front. British-American or European-American would be ok I guess.
I guess an American-British would be somebody who immigrated to GB from the US in that convention, but actually I’m not sure what convention they use over there.
Anyway in this case they aren’t talking about anybody who’s immigrated at all so it is pretty much unrelated.
- Symbiote 2y agoThe nationality of ancestors is not very relevant to most Europeans, mostly because we're the native people of the continent. People with multiple nationalities or who grew up in a different country than their nationality very often describe themselves in terms of a single nationality, often the place they spent most of their childhood. "I'm Argentinian" "Oh, was it difficult to get a visa to come here?" "Well, I have an Italian passport because of my mother." Americans describing themselves as British-American or whatever seems strange to us, since we can recognize typical British people but aren't seeing any of it in the American.
- senkora 2y agoI’ll add that using the hyphen is a little controversial: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenated_American https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenated_American
- bee_rider 2y agoInteresting! I had no idea.