Smeagol
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2012
- Messages
- 4,147
- Reaction score
- 1,694
- Gender
- Undisclosed
- Political Leaning
- Undisclosed
If it is true that humanity came out of Africa then does the term African-American apply to every American?
Why would anyone want to be a hyphenated American?
My thinking is the description of "black American" has a defferent meaning to some than it does to others. People who seem to take exception to it I think see it as an unpatrioic act of subdividing their nationality where those who have no problem with it simply see it as a way to describe ethnicity as in "Native American" or someone refering to their race as "Chinese" even though they are a patriotic American who was born here as they weren't talking about nationality but ethnicity. Of course, it leads to inaccurate understandings to define terms by anything other than what the speaker intended; not who what he hearer perceived them to mean.