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Originally Posted by LukePhillips
Why can't they just get off their little horse and be called American? I can't even remember the last time I called a black person 'African-American'. You find me a black person that can trace his roots, by name, to Africa on the spot, and I'll call him an African-American. Until then, he's an American-American, just like me.
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I have a "highly pigmented" friend who is sick and tired of having to check off "African-American" on forms and such -- her family's ancestors are Caribbean, not African! Even if "once upon a time" her ancestors came to the Caribbean islands from Africa, her family doesn't "relate" to African culture, but rather to Caribbean culture.
Why do we call people in Haiti "Haitians" instead of "African-Haitians"? Why aren't citizens of Grenada called "African-Grenadians"? What is the "acceptable" term in Canada or Mexico for "highly pigmented people"? Do they use the phrase "African-American" in the geographic (continent) sense, rather than the government (country) sense? Or do they just say "black"?