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Old Aug 13, 2007, 03:59 pm   #23 (permalink) (top)
ZNFYRH
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On African-American...

If a Black person tells you to say, "African American," please by all means be rude to them. Ask them when they became a citizen, and which part of Africa they were a citizen previously.

The only time a person should be hyphenating their nationality is when they have dual citizenship. "African American" isn't an ethnicity. As tivodan correctly pointed out, Charlize Theron is more African-American than any Black person living in the ghetto who was born in this country.

Similarly, it's White, not Caucasian. Caucasian is a term for an Asian from the Caucasus mountain region.


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