if a black man who lives in America is called a African American, what's is he called if he lives in England

Answer 1

Funny how most of the Africans I know who are actually from there, resent American Blacks calling themselves "African Americans." I was raised to call them Black, and I feel that the whole "hyphen-American" thing is Political Correctness run amok.
I have one friend, for example, who was raised in Africa. His parents, grandparents, and great grands all lived in Africa, and had for the last 120 years. They were as white as any European. But, using today's terminology, he had more right to call himself African American than the majority of the Black folks in this country, many of whom have NO CLUE about what life in Africa is about.

Answer 2

I can't understand, why a black man, who ist born in America and his parents and grand-parents too, is called a African American. You don't call a man, which forefather 1680 came from Sweden, a Europe American.
In England he is called a Britisher.

Answer 3

African-American is a made-up word. African-American is not a race, the word was "made-up" during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s.

African-Americans are of the ***** race.
An African-American in England is of the: ***** race.

Main Entry: *****
*****
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural Negroes
Etymology: Spanish or Portuguese, from ***** black, from Latin nigr-, niger

A member of a race of humankind native to Africa and classified according to physical features (as dark skin pigmentation)

Answer 4

I have often wondered that. If you are born in America, should you not just be American. If they want to be African, then they should move to Africa and become citizens over there and forget about America. This goes for all nationalities

Answer 5

your only called African American if you came from africa. If you were born in america then your american. same goes for any other country. not sure what you would call some one from england.

Answer 6

While in South Africa some years back, Jesse Jackson referred to Nelson Mandela as an "African-American". Interesting Freudian slip.

Answer 7

Just so you are aware the term African American had emerged as the leading choice of self-referential term. Just as other ethnic groups in American society historically had adopted names descriptive of their families' geographical points of origin (such as Italian-American, Irish-American, Polish-American), many blacks in America expressed a preference for a similar term. Because of the historical circumstances surrounding the capture, enslavement and systematic attempts to de-Africanize blacks in the U.S. under chattel slavery, most African Americans are unable to trace their ancestry to a specific African nation; hence, the entire continent serves as a geographic marker for when you immigrant to a country you are, and this is especially known in America, you enter America and you are now known as an American and nothing more. You are asked to drop your roots and when anyone asks you what you are you say American but those in America who have immigrated to the country are saying no, I am Irish, I am Polish and I am proud of that so why can’t I say or be Polish-American?

In Canada that isn’t the case. When someone immigrants to Canada they are freely allowed to go around and say I am Italian, I am Pakistani without cause. In fact, in Canada if you where to hear a Pakistani say I am Canadian he would get laughed at (not laughed at in a bad way, just a smirk like: who are you trying to kid, you’re Pakistani not Canadian) because in Canada you are who you are and Canada isn’t trying to strip that away from you by giving everyone in the country the same title. You may reside in Canada, you may contributed to Canadian society, you may became a Canadian citizen but you’re still free to practice your customs, your culture, and most of all you are still free to go around and say I am from India. I am from Iran. You are allowed to keep that title in Canada and not be scorn for it.

All in all, to some extent, this is a matter of cultural vs. geographic meaning as I mentioned up above. Think about it when a country opens it boards to outsiders and then asks them to strip who they are. “You are no longer Japanese. You are now American. You are now Canadian. You are now British.” It just doesn’t work that way for groups will always try to find away to identify themselves by their countries or origin.

In Britain the term African British is used to describe all British nationals with antecedents originating directly from Africa. There are also similar terms such as Black British, UK Black, Colored and Black. However, these color coded racial labels can be seen as offensive by African people themselves, who reside in Britain, as well as being inaccurate as many African people are not black.

paaatches –I once walked into a school where a child was being registered to start the new school year and the secretary who was handling the paper work told the mother of the child that her son will no longer be know as (I forgot what his name was he was of Portuguese decent) Alberto I think, but the secretary told the mother that her son will be called Robert from now on. This was a school in the America by-the-way. Anyhow, I was appalled when I overheard this. I don’t care what you say if my kids name is Samar then that is what his name is. It is not Samuel. It is not Sammy. It is not even Sam but rather it is Samar and having to change a name so that it can sound more form fitting amongst a certain race or what not is plain foolish. That's just how I feel.

Answer 8

First, like the rest of the smart people who answered this question, Who cares. Second, he won't be anything if he cannot figure out how to earn a living, no matter where he is, it's likely that he'll starve to death. Third, despite all the ethnic pride of all of our homelands and ancestral backgrounds we share 95%-98% of our make-up with all the other organic material in the universe. We are all mostly h2o, carbon, some nitrogen, and the rest of us, the other 2 1/2% is the 88 or so other elements. Our dna has 90%-95% genetic similiarities to an ear of corn. Yes, I said it an ear of corn. Next, despite all the supposed racial scrutiny of the last 400 years, it's always been about competition for limited resources. The more complex the group the more advanced the weaponry to obtain the money, the power and the greed. No groups who can form a competitive advantage over other groups give a rat's pattooty about color. They simply want what the group has. Slaves of African Orgins were a supposed commodity in the US agricultural economy but clearly it could have been the Irish or Natives if they wouldn't have kept dying in the hotter, near tropical climate of the South Eastern United States from disease. Just like there were haves and haves nots (rulers and subjagated in Europe, Asia, Middle East India, South America, North America) there were subjagated and rulers in Africa. There, however, it was still evolving more along tribal empires than by linked feudal, city/newly evolving nation states. Basically, it was haves and have nots. So, the haves, having superior weaponry and trading partners bopped the have nots on the head, shot them etc. (you fill the in the atrocity) sold them to Portugese, Spanish and English traders to satisfy the demand for cheap agricultural machinery. (If your offended read world history and read the native history, it tends to be more honest about the atrocities cuz we have all, every human being alive, has at one point been traded, sold, beaten, subjagated. Yes, Everyone, all cultures). Anyway, after mechanized machinery such as the cotton gins increased productivity by 1000's of percent and new agro-farms were growing much richer than the slave platationocracy, slaves became an expense. They were outdated agricultural machinery and rather than give full participation and civil rights in the 1870s the hypocritical government promised, they decided to end reconstruction and introduce Jim Crow in the US and property ownership limitation other places. Of course we all know that subjagating people is wrong and of course it hurts to recognize the animal nature of humans beings to hate other groups that are different; not just other skins, but religions, names, clans, tribes, habits, hobbies, sports. every group on earth has done it, every person does anytime we make generalizations. yes, we all do it. And guess what it is still all about the haves and the have nots; only today all human beings are outdated industrial and agricultural machinery, (well maybe not in china and in india as most of the world's manufacturing is done there by chinese and indian have nots). If I were the black, brown, high yellow, red-boned whatever term you want to use to identify someone whose code-on for melanin in skin pigmentation has been genetically sequenced on, I think I would probably cave into the peer pressure of whatever my group in the region I was in at that particular time told me I had to identify with. Because let's face it people, humans are herd animals and there are very few people that ascend to the level of being a person of self-actualization. No, most of us slop around in the sty of mediocrity, in the filth of our own human excrement and place blame on everyone else for own insecurities and idiosynchrosies. Really we are too terrified to think of ourselves as individuals that are inter-dependent out of choice. No, most of us would rather live petty little lives trapped in our insular safe secure homes and place G-d like sweeping judgments on people we know very little about, and definitely nothing on an intimate level. So, mr. Black man, person, i should say homo-sapien, who has darker skin tone than the homo-sapien, with lighter skin tone ie White man, Red Man, Yellow Man, (is there any other color we can make up?) call yourself whatever the heck you want to as long as you realize that we all are subjagated and we all subjagate. Remember that despite the plethora of knowledge out there, we all remain terrified in the soul that we will be rejected by others. So we are all equally clueless and we all live pretty clueless lives. So, knock yourself out pal!

Answer 9

still an African American .

Answer 10

African English.


You have to wonder why people who aren't African English or African American are so concerned with what we call ourselves. It's sort of like they are annoyed that we have the gall to define our name the way we want instead of being called what other people from other races want us to be called.

I guess it's all about control and power. If you can control another races name you basically control that race.

Whites have very little culture of their own so they attempt to defuse other cultures interest in their own culture. And like I said once: You guys kicked everyone azz on the planet...how can you be so insecure??? Even another races name scares you.

Complain away.

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