Puerto Rican-American??

[Beverly Flanigan]

I assume "extended use" means we can still hyphenate ourselves even if we
weren't born abroad?  But "whose patriotic allegiance is assumed to be
divided"?!  That connotes badly!  (Not that I have any particular
allegiance at all right now.)

At 01:25 PM 3/20/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>    OED, under "hyphenated", adjective:
>
>  2. Applied to persons (or, by extension, their activities) born in one
> country but naturalized citizens of another, their nationality being
> designated by a hyphenated form, e.g. Anglo-American, Irish-American;
> hence, to a person whose patriotic allegiance is assumed to be divided.
> Also in extended use. orig. U.S.
>
>1893 FARMER & HENLEY Slang III. 386/2 Hyphenated American, a naturalised
>citizen, as German-Americans, Irish-Americans, and the like. 1900 Daily
>News 15 Aug. 3/1 My opponents were of the hyphenated variety
>Dutch-Americans and Irish-Americans predominating. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 3 Jan.
>3/2 American politics, where men who call themselves Irish-Americans,
>German-Americans, Dutch-Americans, and so on, are contemptuously referred
>to as 'hyphenated Americans' [and later citations.]
>
>GAT
>
>George A. Thompson
>Author of A Documentary History of "The African
>Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.