While searching for some keywords, I accidentally found keywords "German-born American poet" and it shows me the following page:
Now, I have a confusion. It should be 'Germany-born' rather than 'German-born'. As an SEO guy, I know, we can take certain liberty while searching terms on the Internet as Mr. Google can understand what we exactly want to find… But then, it is written in a few articles as well.
Is 'German-born' is correct or not?
Best Answer
To say that someone is
means they are German and born in Germany, in your example
means Charles was born in Germany but has US citizenship, he may or may not have American parents. Or similarly
means one is of Chinese ethnicity, but born in America, which by birth right makes them American.
You would not say
but rather