you must call her a South African, she is not African. I consider this a racist remark - predudice just because she is white, and as such she can't be identified as an African as any white African's aren't considered 'real' Africans. Your comments
2006-08-14 20:02:34 · 12 answers · asked by Angela 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Any person born in Africa is African by definition. Anyone born in Europe is European by definition. Anything else is social conditioning, European DOES NOT mean white, nor does African mean black.
2006-08-14 20:09:10 · answer #1 · answered by rogue_samurai 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Charlize Theron IS African
2006-08-15 13:52:49 · answer #2 · answered by Conservative 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all that is absolutely absurd. Whether a person is actually darker skinned or whiter skinned has nothing to do with the fact that they were born in a certain place. If a person was born in Africa then they are African. Most people say it is people of a certain descent, but I don't believe that. Just as well as if I have irish descent but I was born in the U.S. I am still an American.
2006-08-15 03:10:10 · answer #3 · answered by Tonya 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
South Africa was taken over by whites in order to gain wealth. In order to maintain control over the land they instituted apartheid. Charlize may have been born in South Africa but she is not of racial African descent. Plus her ancestors were racists so it is kind of insulting to associate her with such a beautiful continent/people.
I don't blame your roomate for being upset. I'm African Amer and I'm upset in short: A colonialist or descendant of one (white person) tends to identify him/her self by the country in Africa and not the whole continent. John Kerry's wife got a lot of criticism for calling herself an African-American.
2006-08-15 09:26:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Anybody who is born in Africa and committed to Africa, is an African in my thinking, I know many South Africans who love Africa and are fervently committed to that continent. Does that make them any less African than anyone else on the continent? I don't think so..
2006-08-15 03:15:23 · answer #5 · answered by plax 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Isn't South African African? She is one of my favorite actresses. She had a rough childhood growing up also. And it is Charlize Theron.
2006-08-15 03:10:33 · answer #6 · answered by Goblue 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
oK... very good point...
But, you overlook one thing... her nationality is not African... that's the continent she was born on.
She is South African by birth and nationality, but on a whole scale, comes from Africa.
A Nigerian is no more African than a Liberian and so on...
Each state with its own government and border means you hold a Passport stating your nationality - if you hold a Nigerian Passport, you are Nigerian.
It's the same as someone saying they are French, but European. Their Nationality is French but their collective is European due to the continent they live on adn community they belong to.
It's ok, call her African... but she is South African. Africa is not a nation, remember...
Maybe that's what your friend meant... that's how I interperate it anyhow.
2006-08-15 03:15:50 · answer #7 · answered by ghostsqaud 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Her name is Charlize THERON not Cheron. I don't think that is racist at all. If you are from Africa you are African. No matter what your race is.
2006-08-15 03:15:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
i think, u live in real social and economic life in africa and u born in africa u are an african. but if she is a girl of a diplomate in africa she count be an african.
for example most of european don't count gipsies european but most of them born in europe territory.
i think it's true because they couldn't have opportunities of european life. it's sad but true
2006-08-15 04:41:56 · answer #9 · answered by sub-zero ide 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she is African first then South African .as we Europeans are .French & europens
2006-08-15 03:12:50 · answer #10 · answered by GRUMPY /UK 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋