Hyphenated ethnicity: Difference between revisions

A '''hyphenated ethnicity''' (or rarely '''hyphenated identity''') is a reference to an [[ethnicity]], [[Panethnicity|pan-ethnicity]], [[national origin]], or [[national identity]] combined with the [[demonym]] of a country of [[citizenship]]-[[nationality]], another [[national identity]], or in some cases country of residency or country of upbringing.<ref name="visco2">Visconti, L., Jafari, A., Batat, W., Broeckerhoff, A., Dedeoglu, A., Demangeot, C., ... Weinberger, M. F. (2014). "Consumer ethnicity three decades after: A TCR agenda", ''Journal of Marketing Management'', 30, 1882-1922. ([https://pure.strath.ac.uk/portal/files/36830777/Visconti_etal_JMM_consumer_ethnicity_three_decades_after.pdf online])</ref> The term is an extension of the term "[[hyphenated American]]". The term refers to the use of a [[hyphen]] between the name of an ethnicity and the name of the country in [[Compound noun|compound nouns]]: [[Irish-American]], etc., although modern English language style guides recommend dropping the hyphen: "Irish American".

[[Jeffrey Lesser]] wrote: "While there isare no linguistic categories that acknowledge hyphenated ethnicity (a third generation Brazilian of Japanese descendant remains 'Japanese' while a fourth-generation Brazilian of Lebanese descent may become a ''turco'', an ''arabe'', a ''sirio'', or a ''sirio-libanese''), in fact immigrant communities aggressively tried to negotiate a status that allowed for both Brazilian nationality and ethnic difference".<ref>[[Jeffrey Lesser]], "(Re) Creating Ethnicity: Middle Eastern Immigration to Brazil", The Americas Vol. 53, No. 1 (Jul., 1996), pp. 45-6545–65 {{JSTOR|1007473}}</ref>

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