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**PrareeLor** · 07-12-2012, 10:49 AM

African - American well this term isn't also very correct
I mean this Morrocan girl is should also be African American since she is from Africa

How useful is it to call her African American, and if she did emigrate here, would she even identify with the term? The answer to both those questions is no. As with most other recent immigrants, they are addressed by their nation of origin, as in Morrocan American, Chinese American etc etc. By calling all immigrants who come here from Africa "African American" you are grouping them all together as if they are one monolithic cultural/racial block. A Nigerian is different from a Kenyan, an Algeriaing is differnt from someone from the Congo.

Secondly, she would not identify as "African American", but as Morrocan.

Well for some people aborigines/negriots are black Which further shows the rather pointlessness of this argument, as aborigines share nothing with us, no common history, nor any common ancestry. They are not us, so it is futile to describe them in the same way as us, as we do not identify with them, nor do they identify with us.

In the end, it is our choice how we wish to identify. If foreigners have a problem with this, than they will just have to get over it.

07-12-2012, 10:49 AM	#9
PrareeLor Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 400 Senior Member	African - American well this term isn't also very correct I mean this Morrocan girl is should also be African American since she is from Africa How useful is it to call her African American, and if she did emigrate here, would she even identify with the term? The answer to both those questions is no. As with most other recent immigrants, they are addressed by their nation of origin, as in Morrocan American, Chinese American etc etc. By calling all immigrants who come here from Africa "African American" you are grouping them all together as if they are one monolithic cultural/racial block. A Nigerian is different from a Kenyan, an Algeriaing is differnt from someone from the Congo. Secondly, she would not identify as "African American", but as Morrocan. Well for some people aborigines/negriots are black Which further shows the rather pointlessness of this argument, as aborigines share nothing with us, no common history, nor any common ancestry. They are not us, so it is futile to describe them in the same way as us, as we do not identify with them, nor do they identify with us. In the end, it is our choice how we wish to identify. If foreigners have a problem with this, than they will just have to get over it.
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