If a white South African emigrates to the US, is he an African American
Maybe he's a South African American, especially if he ends up living in the south. But what if he's from some other African country? I mean, does a person have to be black in order to be considered African American? Michael Jackson wasn't black. He was an African American but he was white, so....
Hell yeah!
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Wait..., what? No!
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He's actually more African American than blacks who are born here. explaination: In order to technically be African American, you have to be born in Africa and then become an American citizen. Any black who is born here but has African relatives is American with African decent. Not African American. So i just call them black. Well... also because i don't know if they're african, jamaican, cuban, or w/e. and black is just one syllable. the term black to describe a black person just works perfectly in every way. Side: Hell Yeah!
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I consider an African American to be someone in America that is of recent African descent. This means that a person immigrated to America after being a citizen of any African nation. A black person who has been living in America for quite some time, however, is not African American anymore, just black. I don't consider myself German American or European American because my ancestors have all been in the states since the early 1900's/late 1800's. Therefore, I am only American with German descent. There's no sense in calling someone African American if he or she has no significant ties with Africa, especially if he or she is only called African American based on skin color. Side: Hell Yeah!
Yes- he immigrated from Africa. My babysitter when I was younger was French-American, and preferred to be referred to as such, though racially (social construct, I know) she was black. one should be classified by most recent descent IF that's what they prefer. it would be easier to not have to fight over race, though, and make more meaningful distinctions- perhaps ethnically? I suppose then you would have lots of small ethnic groups in areas with indigenous population in a relatively intact state; Western Europe an America would probably bleed together into a sort of Euro-merican ethnicity, with sub-groups within, Side: Hell Yeah!
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"an American of African and especially of black African descent" According to Webster's Dictionary, the person has to be black in order to qualify for that label. I believe that it is mostly because blacks are the indigenous peoples to Africa. The whites that are there where not actually from there, most immigrated from a European country. Side: Wait..., What? No!
Yes, I agree with your statement but it doesn't fall into the original precedence of the question. This question is use to trick the mind because if a person was born in Africa, regardless of colour, they're considered African born. The original question was not only asking for a direct definition but also rather he would be considered African-American. You have to take nationalities into account here. His nationality is African, so emigrating to the United States would make him African American. But as I said this is a trick question where there are two possible answers. I'm voting "Hell yeah!" because my current thought path leads me to nationality, but I can understand yours too. Side: Hell Yeah!
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