What is a "hyphenated American", and are there other hyphenated nationalities?

great2beme

A hyphenated American was an epithet commonly used from 1890-1920 to disparage Americans who were of foreign birth or origin, and who displayed allegiance to a foreign country. Commonly used to disparage German Americans or Irish Americans. On the Wikipedia link, it also shows other hyphenated nationalities. There is also Afro-Puerto Rican and Ibero-Boricua. Not sure if that's what you mean by hyphenated nationalities though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenated_American http://www.prdream.com/wordpress/?p=137 Nov 03 09, 10:16 PM

looney_tunes

Hyphenated Australians are also common. The include Chinese-Australians, Greek-Australian, and many others. The term refers to Australian residents (and often citizens) whose cultural origins from another country are still preserved to a strong degree. (I am an American-Australian, but we don't usuaally get much press!) http://www.chineseheritage.org.au/ http://www.innersense.com.au/productions/writings/greek-australian.html Nov 04 09, 4:02 AM

unclerick

Although not normally spelled with a hyphen the two main linguistic groups in Canada are referred to as French Canadian and Anglo Canadian. Canada is a bilingual country. The majority of French Canadians live in the province of Quebec. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Canadian Nov 04 09, 11:06 AM

Arpeggionist

Hyphenated Israelis outnumber native Israelis still... Nov 04 09, 11:43 AM

great2beme

Ibero-America term which started to be used in the second half of the 19th century to refer collectively to the countries in the Americas which were formerly colonies of Spain or Portugal. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Ibero-America [Link added -- Zb] Nov 04 09, 6:30 PM

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