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I know a very very lily white african american.... her entire family has lived in South Africa for many generations. Charlize Theron is technically African American....
No. The term "African American" has a cultural and historical context. It denotes and connotes, within those contexts, the legacy and descendents of African slaves in the U.S.
can only black people be called African Americans?
What about the Arabs in the North? The Whites in the South?
White people are so funny... obviously the term African-American was coined to refer to Black Americans... a white guy from Botswana is a Botswanian-American... lol... I mean, c'mon... sometimes philosophy overwhelms good sense.
Quick story... when I was in law school, I was a member of our Black Students Association... each year, we would get a list of the Black students enrolled so we could mentor them, etc. Every year, without fail... you would get these stinking rich North African Arabs put their ethnicity as African-American on the form so that they could qualify for whatever affirmative action program the school had... now whether you agree with affirmative action or not, surely you agree that it's not designed to give a helping hand to multimillionaire Arabs from Egypt! lol... it was such a scam...
The dude is white. His ethnicity is Caucasian and his nationality is Botwansian... or whichever country it was. It's disingenuous to refer to himself as an African-American when he damn well knows the context and history of its use in the USA.
No. The term "African American" has a cultural and historical context. It denotes and connotes, within those contexts, the legacy and descendants of African slaves in the U.S.
"African-American" means nothing. Black Americans have no cultural or linguistic ties to Africa. Most so called "African-Americans" have never set foot in Africa at any point in their lives, nor do they know where in Africa they come from. Its a non-sense blanket term.
If your going to use blanket terms that means nothing, why not apply them to people who actually were born and raised in Africa?
The use "African-american" to describe black american is a good example of the stupidity of American political correctness.
An Angolan of Portuguese descent (of which there are many in Angola) is more African culturally than any native born black American (descendant of slaves).
How can anyone say that only blacks can be called African-American? That makes no sense. If you want to categorize yourself by your skin color, then call yourself black or white or whatever.
My opinion: Only first generation Americans should refer to their ethnicity in a hyphenated form. If you were born and raised in the U.S., you're an American.
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