You know what bugs me about the term "African-American" and "Asian-American?"
These are still, in essence, racist terms.
And it will remain so until they decide to start calling every white person "European-Americans."
Because if you get technical about it, the only American-Americans by that definition would be the Hawaiians, the Inuits and of course, the Native Americans, who, ironically, got mistaken for Indians by the Euro-americans.
Later, they tried correcting this by calling them American Indians... not to be confused with Indian-Americans who actually came from India.
Incidentally, does this mean a black man in Canada is an African-Canadian? And if a guy comes from America and moves to Africa, does that make him an American-African?
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We've been calling them European Americans for a long time
Yeah buddy, but I meant literaly EVERY white person in that continent. Even those born there or have been there since Columbus... just as people born there but happen to be black are called African-American, despite never having been to Africa...
For example: Bill Gates? European American? Heh heh...
oh, and i do remember that children sired by americans with asian women are referred to as Amerasians (also pejoratively called GI babies). sheesh...- nadja
hey joedy.
just dropping a line.
What about Cebuano-Filipinos, Ilocano-Filipinos, Manileno-Filipinos, and all those regional Filipinos...? Sounds all brown to me... but no wonder they're batting for federalism now.
I'm so with you on this one! =)
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