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Old 07-10-2008, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by goalies-r-us View Post
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"?
Anybody know? I'm really interested in this actually.

~Brent
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