In all of my text books, etc, they always read, "African Americans and whites". The more correct term for "whites" would be Caucasian, which means that one's ancestors descended from Caucasia.
Text books should read African Americans and Anglo/Caucasian Americans, or simply blacks and whites, not African Americans and whites, Do you agree?
2007-10-26 10:13:23 · 14 answers · asked by Thursday 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I think you need a hobby.
Who CARES?!
2007-10-26 10:17:52 · answer #1 · answered by mrthing 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes...white is too generic. For a person of Russian,English,German,Jewish, South African Caucasians,
and Irish. Take a South African person who is white by definition he is an African American...or what about a person born in Morocco it's in Africa but the child born here would not be African American either because of the Arab influence.
2007-10-26 10:24:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I've never agreed with black Americans being referred to African Americans because of the fact that white people aren't referred to as European Americans. Perhaps, it started as a way to single black people out or maybe someone thought that it would be the honorable thing to do. Whatever the reason behind it, I'd rather be addressed as an American and then black if race comes into it.
2007-10-26 10:18:44 · answer #3 · answered by Tiacola Version 9.0 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good point. The african american I work with is white.
2007-10-26 10:16:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, not all black people have descended from Africa, so I would say yes we need a new term for all the races.
2007-10-26 10:16:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who cares about that. I am white...I could care less what people wanna call me. It is getting really lame when there are people getting offended at this kind of stuff.
2007-10-26 10:17:26 · answer #6 · answered by Nik-Nak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i do agree because colored people don't usally like the term black and sometimes caucasian people don't like the term white and that is disrespectful
2007-10-26 10:19:05 · answer #7 · answered by Basket_baller_girl13 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. There should be no "shoulds" in education.My preference would be to eliminate all reference to race. We ought to be color-blind.
2007-10-26 10:18:31 · answer #8 · answered by Renaissance Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree very strongly i hate it when i have to read aloud and say ****** or black peaple
2007-10-26 10:17:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i do agree with u
2007-10-26 10:21:54 · answer #10 · answered by boxer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋