African Americans and European Americans?

Question

Hi folks, I've always asked myself why just African Americans and
Americans rather than African Americans and European Americans. the fact is that white hails from Europe and blacks from Africa. so why not to refer to both this way? otherwise, they are both Americans.

Answer 1

I agree with you. I'm an American unless I need to specify. Then I call myself black. To me, an African-American has just gotten his/her citizenship, or is the descendant of Africans within 2-3 generations. The same for European-Americans, Asian-Ameicans, etc, in my opinion. I just say white when talking about caucasian Americans, if there's a need to specify. Otherwise, who cares? American!

Answer 2

European Americans are Americans first.

Answer 3

A black will never call a white a European American

Answer 4

No. I'm not going to start calling myself a European Canadian because I have native ancestry too. If people have ancestors from multiple continents, do they have to go through the whole list? This could get tedious. I prefer "people".

Answer 5

So called african-americans rarely use that term. We pretty much stick to black and white.

Answer 6

Americans r Americans, regardless of what color. Personally I am rather sick of the colored ppl changing what they want to be called. If the NAACP would change their name then maybe everybody would know what to call them.

Answer 7

African American, black, colored, *****, and N#%@*r they're all the same just making a note of a difference.

Answer 8

I agree with you but we really just say black and white

Answer 9

I have a question of my own on that. What's with the word "caucasian"? Where is Caucasia, if there is such a place.

Answer 10

You are absolutely right. But go and try to overcome WASP's stupidity.