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African American vs. Black ??

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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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  1. You don't necessarily have to be black to be African-American.

    Charlize Theron is African-American and she is white.


  2. I personally prefer to be addressed as African or Brown because I'm not black(I'm brown).I would consider myself African because my father is from Nigeria Africa and I have a closer connection.Oh yeah and you need to tell your friend not refer to people of my kind as "those people" because weather she or he like it or not were all the same.

  3. i call 'em COLOREDS...I think that is appropriate

  4. Black, African American, whatever.   Just DON'T call me the "N" word!

  5. It doesn't matter.  However your friend's attitude about Africans is ingnorant.

  6. Why African Americans?

    Why Blacks?

    They're not from Africa.

    They're certainly not black.

    They're BROWN.

    What can people not get about that??

  7. black is portrayed as an evil colour, a dirty and dark entity.

    Why would any human want to place this type of ideaology upon themselves?

    i wouldn't want to call my self a dirty dark evil person...

    are jamaicans considered african american?

  8. i would say that it is kinda like some names such as...

    peter- u can say pete or peter it realy depends on what they want to be called

    so i guess that if u know someone that would feel very offended by calling them 'black' or 'african american' i would ask them what they prefer and go on that

    (you are really fine as long as you don't drop the n- bomb)

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