Re: Country Related: Christmas

> > seems a little better to me).  Terms like African-American, tho, I don't
> > really like.  It's inaccurate - most "African-Americans" have never been
> > to Africa, and white people live in Africa as well, an white
It bothers me too, the ancesters of most Americans of African descent
arrived here hundreds of years before the ancestors of 85% of the white
population.  If African-Americans haven't earned the right to be called
just "American", who has?

> I've always had trouble with the <whatever>-American terms. I agree
> with what you said about them. Also, what do you call a black British
> person? African-British? (Of course, this is in the case that a
Actually, I have heard black peoples of other countries, including
the UK, referred to as African-American in the American media, and
no, I am not joking.


> The problem with "Native American" is that lots of people in America
> are native to America, i.e. they were born here. Besides, from what
> I've gathered, Native Americans don't generally call themselves that.
Never heard anyone but whites, and members of the Wannabi tribe use
the term Native American.  The Indians I have known have all prefered
Indian or American Indian.

> (And why aren't Inuits and Aleuts "Native Americans?")
They sometimes are, but they are biologically, culturally, and
linguistically distinct from American Indian populations.
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