Why call blacks African-American?The first people in the world lived in Africa, so we all came from Africa and

Question

if we live in the U.S., we are all African-Americans. Whites are African-Americans too, and we have just as much right to call ourselves that!!

Answer 1

I would hold off on a statement such as that - - - - new discoveries have suggested that man 'evolved' in several places in Africa and Asia with the Asian sites gaining recognition for the true ignition the spark that sent early man/woman on the road to world domination.. Truly spooky is the fact that the 'Garden of Eden' is equal distance between origin points in Asia and Africa... As for the term African America, it is a rude way to say that certain people do not actually belong 'here. Many of the stars & bars crowd were loud about sending A-A's' 'back to Africa' when many of them were third and fourth generation Americans.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1227_051227_asia_migration.html
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Did Early Humans First Arise in Asia, Not Africa?
Nicholas Bakalar
for National Geographic News

December 27, 2005
Two archaeologists are challenging what many experts consider to be the basic assumption of human migration—that humankind arose in Africa and spread over the globe from there.

The pair proposes an alternative explanation for human origins: arising in and spreading out of Asia.
Robin Dennell, of the University of Sheffield in England, and Wil Roebroeks, of Leiden University in the Netherlands, describe their ideas in the December 22 issue of Nature.

They believe that early-human fossil discoveries over the past ten years suggest very different conclusions about where humans, or humanlike beings, first walked the Earth.

New Asian finds are significant, they say, especially the 1.75 million-year-old small-brained early-human fossils found in Dmanisi, Georgia, and the 18,000-year-old "hobbit" fossils (Homo floresiensis) discovered on the island of Flores in Indonesia.
Such finds suggest that Asia's earliest human ancestors may be older by hundreds of thousands of years than previously believed, the scientists say.
"What seems reasonably clear now," Dennell said, "is that the earliest hominins in Asia did not need large brains or bodies." These attributes are usually thought to be prerequisites for migration.
The authors maintain that, although there is no absolute proof, putting all the evidence together requires an open mind about other geographical origins of the first humans.
The First Asians?
The authors point out that there is very little solid information about the first early humans in Asia, and paleontologists are left with assumptions that are too often treated as historical facts.
There is no archaeological or fossil evidence to prove that early humans moved from southern Africa to the Nile Valley in the early Pleistocene (1.8 million years ago to 11,500 years ago), they say.
The earliest evidence of a human ancestor in Asia appears to be the 1.8-million-year-old cranium found in Mojokerto, Indonesia. But, the authors note, the fact that no older specimens have been found in Asia does not prove that they didn't exist. """""""""""""""""""""'


Peace.................

Answer 2

Alot of people belive that the 1st people regarded in south india and different places besides, not basically africa:P So some people does not take excitement in you asserting anybody come from africa besides adequate years have replaced us so we don't appear as if we are natives from there. in case you prefer to call your self african-american by all skill flow forward yet not all blacks are from africa the two:P

Answer 3

This is a different answer but People who live in the United States are not the only AMERICANS!! The United States is only a Part of NORTH AMERICA!!!! There also is Central America and South America!!! Now me, of course, I was Born, raised and live in the United States but it does come to me more now that I am older that we who live and were Born in the United States Of America are not the only ones to be called AMERICANS!! The only Problem is that we have no Nickname to be called as Citizens of the United States!!! I had to give you this thought because you did use the saying, African-Americans and another one used Irish-Americans, Mexican Americans, etc. Well, Mexicans are Americans even if they live in Mexico and not the United States. Do You Get My Point!!! Anybody born in a Country in North America, Central America and South America are AMERICANS!! You do not have to be born in the United States to be one!!!

Answer 4

Well, in prehistoric times, it wasn't Africa, so as humans or proto humans migrated to different places they didn't consider themselves from anywhere; they just were where they were.

I personally think that unless one's family came to a country very recently it is pointless to call oneself any identifier of one's country of origin. There aren't just African Americans, you know, some people call themselves Irish Americans and Italian Americans and Mexican Americans, or did, but if one's Irish or Italian or Mexican or African ancestors came to America two or three generations ago, or more; I think one is just American.

Two thoughts occur. Do people in other countries do this? I don't think so. I've never heard anyone referred to as Indian English or African French. The second is the long list most people would have, given a mobile society and interbreeding. I personally am Irish, Scots, Welsh, English, and German American. My last husband was Swedish and Italian American, so our poor son is Irish, Scots, Welsh, English, German, Swedish, Italian American.

See how silly it is?

Answer 5

Early and Late-come Afro-Americans. Us natives can call ourselves First-Afro-Americans....

Answer 6

you r right but usa feel very white thats the point they dont want want to be mixed with that ugly monkis SEGRAGATION thats why i agree with u .DISCRIMINATION