Hyphenated Americans

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Nov 13 23:14:27 UTC 2005


On 11/13/05, Robert Wachal <robert-wachal at uiowa.edu> wrote:
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> Poster:       Robert Wachal <robert-wachal at UIOWA.EDU>
> Subject:      Hyphenated Americans
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> >Does a term like Czech-American apply to immigrants or only to people of
> >Czech descent born in the U.S.?
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The same question can be asked WRT African-American.
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-Wilson Gray



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