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| Nov 17, 2011 at 1:00 | comment | added | Gnawme | @Marthaª That's probably because Americans who adopt Hungary as their home (American Hungarians) are so rare as to be almost nonexistent. It's interesting to note that when I had clients in Malaysia, which has a mélange of ethnicities, the natives were all Malaysians -- either in a straightforward way (Chinese Malaysian) or qualified in some degree (Malaysian of British-Indian descent). | |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 0:48 | comment | added | Marthaª | IME both "American Hungarian" and "Hungarian American" mean someone of Hungarian ancestry living in the USA. The situation gets even more complicated with British+Indian. I think the only reliable answer is to look at the context. | |
| Nov 16, 2011 at 21:00 | comment | added | Gnawme | +1 This hits the nail on the head, and extends to such constructs as "Farsi Londoner" (to describe a former colleague) or (in my case) "Romulan Terran." (I would dislike being characterized as a Terran Romulan.) | |
| Nov 16, 2011 at 20:52 | history | answered | Mr. Shiny and New 安宇 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |