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**ultimda horaf** · 07-12-2012, 11:04 AM

Becuase I simply can get why people such as Nigerians and Ghaninas cna't call themselves African Americasn if they were born in the US, as they also come from the African continent.

Who says they can't identify as African American? I'm fine with them identifying with us. During assimilation, don't they end up merging with us native African Americans anyway? But how many African Immigrants give up identifying with their home Nations within the first generation? That is the crucial point of this debate, most Immigrants still identify with their home nations to an extent, and adopt that name for their American modifier.

07-12-2012, 11:04 AM	#15
ultimda horaf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 461 Senior Member	Becuase I simply can get why people such as Nigerians and Ghaninas cna't call themselves African Americasn if they were born in the US, as they also come from the African continent. Who says they can't identify as African American? I'm fine with them identifying with us. During assimilation, don't they end up merging with us native African Americans anyway? But how many African Immigrants give up identifying with their home Nations within the first generation? That is the crucial point of this debate, most Immigrants still identify with their home nations to an extent, and adopt that name for their American modifier.
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