Tsinoy

Tsinoy
 n.— «Of late, there has been the coinage of this term “tsinoy,” purportedly to mean Chinese-Filipino.» —“Greetings in the Lunar New Year” by Linda Grace Cariño Sun Star (Baguio City, Philippines) Jan. 31, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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  • There’s a website, (http://tsinoy.com/), where you can get more citations for the word Tsinoy.

    And this is from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Filipino):

    “Tsinoy” (pronunciation (help ·info)) derived from two words: “Tsino” (meaning “Chinese”) and “Pinoy” (the slang word for “Filipino”) is a person of Chinese ancestry but raised in the Philippines.

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    Chinese mestizos are those in the Philippines of mixed Chinese and either Filipino or Spanish (or both) ancestry. They make up about 11.5% of the country’s total population (those who are pure Chinese make up 2% of the population). A number of Chinese mestizos have surnames that reflect their heritage, mostly two or three syllables that have Chinese roots (e.g., the full name of a Chinese ancestor) with a Spanish phonetic spelling. The Chinese mestizos may also be known as Tsinoys (alternatively spelled as “Chinoy”), although this term may also refer to the full-blooded Chinese Filipinos; and/or Chinito, a term that largely denotes physical characteristics (referring to slanted eyes) rather than ethnic/cultural.

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