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If Blacks are called African Americans in America what are they called in other countries?
Example:
In England are they called African Britain's?
Germany: African German?
or are they British and Germans?
If they go by the later then why is it a big deal in America that they want to be called African Americans.
Mellow, all blacks came from Africa, (Human Trade), So Jamacians are decendents for those from Africa, why are they called African Jamacan? Your statement Is a false statement.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
We call them just black
- 1 decade ago
In America they are called African Americans But in most countries... they are called ******, which means Black people. Very Offensive and Discriminatory
- ?Lv 61 decade ago
Only, Black people of African descent can be called African American in the USA. Jamaicans are Black, some Hispanic's are black. There are black people everywhere.
I actually don't know any black people who want to be referred to as African American....
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- feinmanLv 45 years ago
as quickly as I holiday in a foreign country, I evaluate myself in simple terms "American," yet here in the U. S. I call myself "black American." my own own opinion is that African-human beings are present day immigrants to the country and have in simple terms gotten their citizenship one or 2 generations in the past. i could evaluate this the comparable for "ecu human beings" and "Asian human beings" besides. this is substantial to be conscious that the overpowering majority of so-stated as "African-human beings" have been here in the U. S. longer than many white human beings. i will hint my ancestors returned to the 1830's whilst they have been tilling the fields of Arkansas and Tennessee; they might have been here quite a few an prolonged time till now that! Now take somebody like Rick Santorum: his father immigrated to the U. S. in the 1930's from Italy, yet with the aid of fact he's white and 2d era, he could be considered in simple terms "American" while i'm getting the adjective further to become attentive to me ("African-American") even however my family contributors has been in the U. S. for greater beneficial than a century longer than his! in addition to, very few black human beings can hint their background and roots returned to a particular u . s . a . or tribe in Africa. The borders of the international locations themselves have been of path drawn up by potential of ecu governments in the 1800s, and a unmarried tribe might have stretched throughout the time of quite a few international locations' borders. The tribes considered themselves a unmarried u . s . a . regardless of the obstacles they got here upon themselves in (and it is strictly why there have traditionally been maximum of themes in Africa for the previous century). So enable's say I got here from the Mandinka tribe in West Africa. that could become attentive to my tribal background, however the Mandinka could be present day in 9 different international locations in West Africa on the instant! So which you would be able to I declare?! to respond to your questions in simple terms, African-descended human beings in the Caribbean can call themselves in simple terms "Jamaican" or "Haitian" etc with the aid of fact they represent maximum human beings racial history of those international locations (if a German have been to pass to Jamaica, i'm specific he or she could be categorized "German-Jamaican). African-descended human beings in the U. S. contain basically 13% of the inhabitants here, that's why we, and all different racial minorities, have the further adjective to become attentive to us.