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Parentage vs Amerasian - What's the difference?

parentage | amerasian |

As nouns the difference between parentage and amerasian

is that parentage is of or pertaining to one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth while 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.

parentage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Of or pertaining to one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
  • The social quality of your class in society.
  • * 1608 , Shakespeare, Pericles , Act 5, Scene 1:
    • My fortunes -- parentage -- good parentage -- To equal mine! -- was it not thus? What say you?
  • origin; derivation

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    amerasian

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
    • 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?
  • * 2005 Trin Yarborough, Surviving twice: Amerasian children of the Vietnam War, Brassey's, px.
    • 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.
  • * 2010 Ilona Bray, Loida Nicolas Lewis & Ruby Lieberman, How to Get a Green Card, Nolo, p156
    • The Amerasian's spouse and minor, unmarried children are eligible to immigrate along with him or her.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of mixed American and Asian parentage
  • * 1980 Geo , Volume 2, Issue 2, p80
    • 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.
  • * 1998 Peter Conn, Pearl S. Buck: a cultural biography, Cambridge University Press, p365
    • In the mid-1960s, a letter arrives from his Amerasian son, now twelve years old and victimized by poverty [...]
  • * 2004 Anni P. Baker, American soldiers overseas: the global military presence, Greenwood Publishing Group, p119
    • 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 [...]

    Usage notes

    Amerasian'' is not synonymous with ''Asian American'' (an American of Asian heritage).(2005) ''The American Heritage guide to contemporary usage and style,'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p25 The term is most closely associated the Korean]] and [[Vietnam War, Vietnam Wars, during which many children were fathered in Asian countries by American servicemen.(2005) ''The American Heritage guide to contemporary usage and style, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p25. Chambers Dictionary explicitly restricts the word to "fathered by an American serviceman in Vietnam or Korea" (1998 ed. p.47).

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