Is a White person born in South Africa who becomes a naturalized USA citizen now an "African American"?

It doesn't matter where someone is born. If a white guy or gal who is a citizen of an African country naturalizes in the United States, he or she would indeed be an African American, the same way I'm a European American. But since using such terms implies shared loyalty, it's better to just use the term American. The African American would be an African in Africa and an American in America, the same way I'm a European in Europe and an American in America.

Short, but true story:

Girl in Los Angeles gets raped by a black dude, reports it to the police. Officer writes "African American" to describe the subject. She refuses to sign, pointing out that he was about 6'2 tall, black as the night, but she had no idea if he was an American or a tourist from Uganda, hence African American was simply incorrect.

Of course. And now we see how silly the term African American is when describing Black people. We seem to have gotten away from using Caucasian to describe White people. White seems to work fine. So Black would be a far better generic descriptor than African American. Was Nelson Mandela an African American? No. He was BLACK. Is the African American in your question Black? No. You mentioned he is White. What silliness in going from the basic description Black to using African American when all that does in confuse people. It is not a univocal term. Black is.

YES. Obviously. Unfortunately there are many who think "African American" is a RACE. It's isn't.

i don't think so because african american is a race and his race was titled when he was born. the title of his race don't get changed-added to because he relocated. i think he'd be titled an african (the same race) with us citizenship.

if he go to the ss office, dmv, job and he put down african american they'll probably ask for birth certificate because that's a race he wouldn't favor. that's when they'll tell him to feel in "other" because he's not african american, he's an african with us citizenship.

if he was to get citizenship in united states, italy and korea what then would he title himself as?

african-american-italian-korean?

Only in America do they mix up nationality with ethnicity .everywhere else in the World you would be simply "American" and if you hold dual nationality with SA, then you would be a dual SA " and" American citizen/national

ha, ha. I doubt anyone has asked that question for at least a week. I doubt anyone one in that category would particularly want to be considered as such.

Technically, yes. His roots are in Africa, and he's a US citizen.

Even more so than the Blacks in the U.S..

I would say so, yes.

I would assume so.