American-born Chinese or "ABC" describes a person born in the United States of Chinese ethnic descent, a category of Chinese American. Many are second-generation (meaning that they have parents who are naturalized U.S. citizens), born after the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965 were free from limits on immigration from East Asia.
Note that in Australia, this acronym may also be used to refer to Australian Born Chinese.
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“We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)