I don't like any term that categorizes and classifies a certain group of human beings, but differences are reality and should be celebrated, and used to educate not discriminate.
I've often wondered about this, but have been too shy to ask any black people that I know personally, for fear of offending them.
Is African-American the correct term or is it just a politically correct term propagated by the American media? Does it apply globally?
What about black people from Jamaica and the tropics and other continents/countries besides Africa? Do they want to be called African-American?
There are white people in Africa too, especially South Africa. If they immigrate to the U.S. are they considered African-American?
What do you call black people who do not live in the US? African-Canadian? African-English? I am sincerly confused and uneducated on the topic.
What about black people in Africa? Are they African-Africans? Are Jamaicans African-Jamaican?
Please someone enlighten me.
2006-07-06
16:54:07
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LindaLou
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