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Resident vs Amerasian - What's the difference?

resident | amerasian |

As nouns the difference between resident and amerasian

is that resident is person, animal or plant living at a location or in an area 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 adjectives the difference between resident and amerasian

is that resident is dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate while Amerasian is of mixed American and Asian parentage.

resident

Noun

(en noun)
  • Person]], animal or plant [[live, living at a location or in an area.
  • *
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  • A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
  • A graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty.
  • A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
  • Derived terms

    * permanent resident

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
  • resident in the city or in the country
  • Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
  • He is our resident computer expert.
  • (obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • stable and resident like a rock
  • * Davenant
  • one there still resident as day and night

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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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