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**JosephEL** · 07-04-2011, 05:04 AM

Ethnicity is irrelevant to where you're from. A person of African descent born in the USA is still of African descent. I'm Caucasian no matter where I'm born. I could be born in a grass hut in Kenya, and grow up hunting antelope, and still be Caucasian.

But if you're born and raised in Africa, you're African. If you're born and raised in America, you're American. Just because I have German, Irish and Scottish - and who knows what else ancestry - that doesn't make me German, Irish or Scottish. Plus we all probably have some African ancestry in our lineages somewhere if you go back far enough. There are plenty of Caucasian or people who are considered white who are African because that's where they were born and live. That's why people who are born in this country are American, regardless of their ethnicity. However, I feel if you have never stepped foot in say Africa for example, you're not African American. So what about people who are "half" or mixed (even though again we all are but I digress)?

The point is that I don't understand why if you become a citizen of this country or are born a citizen or want to be a citizen, why wouldn't you just call yourself American? If you're a dual citizen, by all means, then you call yourself German American, Mexican American, etc.

07-04-2011, 05:04 AM	#20
JosephEL Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 438 Senior Member	Ethnicity is irrelevant to where you're from. A person of African descent born in the USA is still of African descent. I'm Caucasian no matter where I'm born. I could be born in a grass hut in Kenya, and grow up hunting antelope, and still be Caucasian. But if you're born and raised in Africa, you're African. If you're born and raised in America, you're American. Just because I have German, Irish and Scottish - and who knows what else ancestry - that doesn't make me German, Irish or Scottish. Plus we all probably have some African ancestry in our lineages somewhere if you go back far enough. There are plenty of Caucasian or people who are considered white who are African because that's where they were born and live. That's why people who are born in this country are American, regardless of their ethnicity. However, I feel if you have never stepped foot in say Africa for example, you're not African American. So what about people who are "half" or mixed (even though again we all are but I digress)? The point is that I don't understand why if you become a citizen of this country or are born a citizen or want to be a citizen, why wouldn't you just call yourself American? If you're a dual citizen, by all means, then you call yourself German American, Mexican American, etc.
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