Originally posted by YaoRockets:
the correct answer is "[b]singapore chinese".
also you could say "chinese singaporean", but it's a bit
awkward.
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YaoRockets, I believe I see you correcting this a few times
already. But I am not so sure if you are correct on this. Using a
direct translation from Mandarin, you are right.
But if you look at it from the English language, both are
completely acceptable. In fact, it depends on which one is the
noun. In the case of Singaporean, I think we prefer Singaporean to
be the noun and Chinese to be the adjective rather than Chinese
being the noun and Singapore being the adjective.
Basically, it depends on whether we want to be known as
Xin Jia Po Hua Ren
Or
Hua Zu Xin Jia Po Ren
Both are correct. Singaporean probably prefers to be known as the
later for corret description of who we actually are.
Just wanted to clear this up since this was brought up many
times.
