(again), no pun intended, I'm sure.
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Of course not.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
What you feel Blacks / African Americans should think and feel is really irrelevent. What is important is what they feel. If someone asks you to refer to them as Black, do so. If someone asks you to refer to them as African-American, then do so. If they ask you to call the Fred, then do so.
One of my friends is from Eritrea, another from Nigeria. One speaks with an american accent, the other a british/nigerian accent. Neither are american, yet most people who are asked to describe them who don't know them call them african american. This offends them more than anything else. I suppose the proper pc term would be to call them african, but then what about people here in new zealand - they have dark skin, but they aren't african, they're maori, or samoan or whatever. Unless you know their ethnicity, you can't use it as a describing term - however the colour of their skin you can.
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When I start segregating myself, then you can worry about this.
Ah, and here comes the part of Speer's racism troll which rings true. Unless you know, you can't form any judgements about it (translated even futher, unless you are black you can't talk about the culture).
This is an interesting thread. Speer is totally schooling che.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
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Originally posted by MrFun
Then why do historians claim Africa is more diverse than Asia??"I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!
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Strangelove:
historically, though, it would seem africa wouldn't be diverse as the Bantu spread from roughly the Congo into all directions. Most ethnic groups in africa trace back to the single Bantu ethnicity."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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Originally posted by Albert Speer
Strangelove:
historically, though, it would seem africa wouldn't be diverse as the Bantu spread from roughly the Congo into all directions. Most ethnic groups in africa trace back to the single Bantu ethnicity.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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Originally posted by Albert Speer
i am just saying that it appears that you're denying the destruction of the African consciousness brought on by slavery.
This is one way in which African culture is still with Black Americans today. This doesn't mean that Black people in the United States speak Yoruba.
Can you understand the difference?
i have never in my life seen a black american have any special affinity for an african out of a shared heritage of any sort.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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No, people - all people - should call themselves whatever they want to call themselves. However, it's innacurate and sometimes harmful to call yourself certain things. You can still do it, because you have a right to the sanctity of your identity, but I'll disagree with you. Not that my disagreeing has any power, and it shouldn't.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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Originally posted by Lorizael
However, it's innacurate and sometimes harmful to call yourself certain things.
There is no such thing as a single culture in China. The Cantonese are different from Beijingers. They eat different food. They speak different languages (or dialects). Their cultures, such as opera, are different.
In the US, the New York Democrat has a very different culture from a Texan Republican. A person living in Bismarck, ND is going to have a very different lifestyle from the person living in San Francisco.
In German, Easterners and Westerners are different as are the mainly Protestant north and the mainly Catholic south.
So even though nationalistic names are vague, few people would ridicule the use of these terms, or complain that the terms are being used. Why is that?Golfing since 67
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I would.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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Conclusion:
1. You call people what they want to be called. Duh.
2. However, in America, you cannot go wrong with "African American" in any mature social situation, until otherwise requested/allowed/whatever. This is trebly true upon any initial meeting. And even if "allowed", you should probably take the high road.
Gotta tell you, this stuff (etiquette in regards to race/religion/national origin/etc.) really gets pounded into you in a corporate environment, especially amongst the white collar types. You even take classes for this in an average business degree, and if you're ever in a position to interview, the number of topics that you can't talk about are almost as great as the number you can.
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