All races would you prefer to be called....... or is it just political correctness?

Question

Blacks would you prefer African-American or Black?

Whites would you prefer Caucasians or White?

Mexicans and every title of the Spanish Decent would you prefer Latin-American instead or what?

Chinese, Japanese, etc, would you prefer Asian instead?

Why are SOME people offended by being called Black, White, Mexican or Chinese?

Answer 1

Whites would you prefer Caucasians or White? Doesn't matter to me.

Chinese, Japanese, etc, would you prefer Asian instead? I doubt it, because there's been bloodshed and offenses by some parties to the others.

Why are SOME people offended by being called Black, White, Mexican or Chinese? Because not even 100 years ago, these terms were meant to offend these races.

Answer 2

I'm black and prefer to be called exactly what I am, which is Black America, NOT African American. How can I be African American if I don't know anything about Africa, never been there, have no ties to it, don't even know the language, and my parents or grand parents aren't from there???

You might as well call me Native American and European American too since I have a spec of blood from both of those. I'm Black American because my blood is mostly from African slaves, but mixed with slightly few other things like most blacks. African slaves are those who's culture was torn from them, leaving their entire culture with no sense of culture, family, lagnuage, way of life, etc. Most of those people knew nothing about their African heritage after everything got ripped form them, so therefore my family line doesn't know, and I don't either. All I know is America, and that I'm treated like a "Black" person because I'm black. Which means discrimination from everyone including many black people.

So...I'm Black American. And I personally don't feel like I belong anywhere. I'm just me.

Answer 3

I kind of like the idea, that we don't need this race bit. I go by how people treat me, not their ancestry. They respect me, then I respect them. The newspapers in this country need to stop putting labels on people in their news. A thief is a thief, no matter what and there is no need to add his race to the news.

Answer 4

Latin American is not a race, Latin American is someone born is Latin America, regardless of race. And Mexican is not a race neither, Mexican is someone born in Mexico.

Answer 5

Well since im more like heinz 57, got a little bit of a lot of different nationalities, just call me american

Answer 6

i don't care if im called a mexican, but the correct term for me is hispanic.i was born here

Answer 7

I am who i am.. American. Dont put labels on me or call me names...