An American-born Chinese or "ABC" is a person born in the United States of Chinese ethnic descent, a category of Chinese American. Many, but not all, are second-generation (parents who are naturalized U.S. citizens) born after the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965 relaxed limits on immigration from East Asia.
"American-born Chinese" and "Chinese-American"
An important difference in the connotations of the words "American-born Chinese" and "Chinese American" is that the former emphasizes that the person in question is fundamentally Chinese, and the latter emphasizes that they are American, just the same as an African American or Italian American, for example. The two words thus reflect a difference in the appreciation of, respectively, ancestry and upbringing in determining a person's cultural identity. In reality, many Americans of Chinese descent feel at least some affinity with both cultures and nations. A similar duality of identity can be found to some degree in many if not all ethnic groups in the United States, and indeed many nations with immigration, minority populations, and the like.
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