"African-Americans"

Only in the USA can one think that the term "African-American" is politically correct. My friend Gerard, a white man from South Africa who relocated to Pennsylvania, is an African-American. My friend Hassan, a Moroccan who relocated to California, is an African-American. The white Zimbabwean businessman whom i met in Argentina and the black Angolan student whom i met in Brazil are African-Americans. But that is not what USA citizens mean when they say "African-American": they mean "black person who lives in the USA". In fact they call "African-American" even people from Haiti, Britain and France, as long as their skin is black. Most USA citizens (particularly the self-appointed African-American ones) think of Africa as being only sub-Saharan Africa, and of America as being only the USA. And they do not consider white people born in Africa as "African". In other words, when they say "African" they really mean "person with a black skin", and when they say "American" they really mean "USA citizen".

I think that "black" is more precise and, ultimately, more politically correct. Thus i use "black musician" to mean what USA citizens refer to as "African-American musician". If no nationality is provided, then it means that the black person is from the USA (this book is mostly about the USA, so it would be redundant to keep repeating "black USA musician"). I write both "black" and "white" lower case. Occasionally i lapse into the "African-American" thing myself, but that should be in a broader context (when i am indeed talking about the two continents).

-Scaruffi

>. The white Zimbabwean businessman whom i met in Argentina and the black Angolan student whom i met in Brazil are African-Americans.

LOL

So Idris Elba is a European then?

If whites born in Africa count as Africans then blacks born in Europe count as European

This is literally the definition of multiculturalism lol

Do you really have difficulty understanding AA user?

It's not that hard. Africa Africans are called by their nationality like Saffer Americans ofr Nigerian Americans.
African American means Blacks who have long,long historical ties in the U.S and the VAST majority by far of people with African descent in Americas are AA's. In academic setting when referring to Black but non-African American groups they use their nationality like Hatian's or Carribs.

Black isn't precise because blacks include EVERY single darkie in the world but in an American setting always their blacks so in informal settings it will do.

But "African-Americans" are also part European.

And?

Southern Europeans are part NA. Eastern Europeans are part Asian

So "African-American" is misleading in that it only focuses on one aspect of their ethnic makeup.

Don't bring up this nonsensical autistic semantics.
I bet you are that Griffe guy.

Yes lets be Brazil and make up an ethnic group for every mixture.

thats fucking dumb and no real country does that outside south America

No one cares that Italians have NA in them, they are still European

Because Americans are retards with no sense of real identity so they claim anything based on race

>Eastern Europeans are part Asian
"No."

Not him and don't necessarily agree with all of his post, but there has to be a significant history of settlement. Idris Elba's parents are first generation immigrants from Sierra Leone. Meanwhile white South Africans have been in South Africa for centuries, developed their own culture, identity and even their own language. They've been there even longer than most blacks who live there now, and certainly longer than places like USA have been a country.

Most black Americans just say black. Whites and white institutions perpetuate African American, so in a way yes that sarcastic statement is correct.

I'm white and we don't say African American at all outside of TV, everyone just says black.

>They've been there even longer than most blacks who live there now, and certainly longer than places like USA have been a country.

That's bullshit.

Also white south Africans are not uniform at all since not EVERY one is a fucking Afrikaner in SA.

Cape area got settled in mid 17th century, USA got created more than a century later.

>They love it because it "others" black Americans, who ironically are on average more deeply rooted in America than the average white American.

Persia is very far removed from Korea. Where as Egypt in the ancient sense influenced practically the entirety of the nile. Not the same thing.