macanese in English
noun
name of a people group native of Macau (the descendants of intermarriage between Portuguese and Chinese)
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1. The Macanese, who had seen five hundred years of modernization projects founder in their little backwater, were dubious.
2. But the Macanese — as this former Portuguese colony's mixed-race residents are called — are threatened by a demographic tide that could subsume their culture.