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Quote by: ZNFYRH  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. |
I don't believe in hyphenated Americans. If one is born in the United States or is a naturalized citizen then one is an American.
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Similarly, it's White, not Caucasian. Caucasian is a term for an Asian from the Caucasus mountain region.
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In this case, it refers to someone of the caucasoid "race" (one of the racist distinctions early sociologists and anthropologists came up with in the 19th century in order to give "scientific" validation to the European/American belief in white superiority).