Asia vs Amerasian - What's the difference?
asia | amerasian |
A continent located east of Europe, west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.
(Greek God) A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan, Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
(astronomy) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
of modern usage, from the continent.
* 1994 , Girl: A Novel , Simon&Schuster, ISBN 0671897071, page 81
(historical) A province of the Roman Empire located in what is now western Turkey.
a person of mixed American and Asian parentage, especially if their father was an American serviceman or temporary resident stationed in Asia during the Vietnam Era
* 1995 Steven DeBonis, Children of the enemy: oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians and their mothers, McFarland, p125
* 2005 Trin Yarborough, Surviving twice: Amerasian children of the Vietnam War, Brassey's, px.
* 2010 Ilona Bray, Loida Nicolas Lewis & Ruby Lieberman, How to Get a Green Card, Nolo, p156
of mixed American and Asian parentage
* 1980 Geo , Volume 2, Issue 2, p80
* 1998 Peter Conn, Pearl S. Buck: a cultural biography, Cambridge University Press, p365
* 2004 Anni P. Baker, American soldiers overseas: the global military presence, Greenwood Publishing Group, p119
As a proper noun Asia
is a continent located east of Europe, west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.As a noun Amerasian is
a person of mixed American and Asian parentage, especially if their father was an American serviceman or temporary resident stationed in Asia during the Vietnam Era.As an adjective Amerasian is
of mixed American and Asian parentage.asia
English
(wikipedia Asia)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- And Scott Haskell started going out with this sophomore girl called Asia , who was this rich girl from Weston Heights.
See also
* *Anagrams
* English words suffixed with -ia ----amerasian
English
Noun
(en noun)- I am an Amerasian , why am I not allowed to stay here legally? Why do you try to keep me out, why do you discriminate against me?
- By contrast, the average age of the Amerasian AHA immigrant arriving in America was seventeen – about one year younger than the average age of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam during the war.
- The Amerasian's spouse and minor, unmarried children are eligible to immigrate along with him or her.
Adjective
(-)- Keane's speeches have not reduced the number of Amerasian births, but a decade of sleuthing has helped nearly 600 Amerasian orphans find new homes in the United States.
- In the mid-1960s, a letter arrives from his Amerasian son, now twelve years old and victimized by poverty [...]
- Interestingly, however (and fortunately for the children), Amerasian parentage held virtually no stigma in the Phillupines, in contrast to the situation in other Asian nations such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam [...]