so i was talking with my friends about this like a week ago (of course not for the first time just the most recent) and some of them dont want to be called one term or the other. one girl said that she doesnt see her as african and refers to them as "those people". she generally looks down on africans and thinks they kind of suck. i thin kthis has a lot to do with the position of women in many african countries but anyway...ive met others like her who really dont consider themselves "african" at all so, as they would put it, why claim something centuries old (essentially ancestry) if you have no real connection to it?
some of my other friends prefer being called a.a. because "black" is such a generalization that many white people, though they created the term to begin with, dont even understand. ive met some older people who thought "black" applied to all dark skinned people.one woman said she was shocked when a little chinese girl complained in school about a"mean white girl"!
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