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This could be a silly question but...
In an essay about ethics, is it better to write Black or African American?
See I think Black is fine but when it's written down it doesn't look right.
Sorry if i'm being totally stupid......
In an essay about ethics, is it better to write Black or African American?
See I think Black is fine but when it's written down it doesn't look right.
Sorry if i'm being totally stupid......
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They say both here (YES! I know it's wikipedia! Haha!)...
You know I feel horrible asking this question!
They say both here (YES! I know it's wikipedia! Haha!)...
You know I feel horrible asking this question!
I could never understand this idea of being African American, or Irish American, or anything else American. Surely if you live in America, were born there and have roots going back yonks, then you are an American. Any ties to other countries are tenuous to say the least. If I had made a choice to go and live in America and to be an American I would forget any other country and wave the flag as hard as anyone else. White, Pink, Yellow or Black would make no difference. I would be an American. So there!! that's my opinion, for what it's worth.
Americans are proud to be "hyphenated Americans". There are Norwegian-Americans, Irish-Americans and many others. Curiously, you don't hear of French-Americans, yet there is at least one whole community in Florida whose main language among themselves is French. The communities reflect historical fact, that whole lots of immigrants immigrated together and settled together, and their descendants have preserved the customs , and often,indeed, the language, of their ancestral homeland. Even when separated from areas of the original settlement, such people still retain the feeling of belonging to that ancestry and culture.
African-American is an attempt to replicate this and disown names with racist overtones, but it is strangely synthetic. Most came from West Africa but their ancestors would not, necessarily, have had anything in common: different tribes, different languages,different cultures, but the same fate. Martin Luther King referred to 'the ***' in his "I have a dream" speech, but that may not be acceptable now, in any context. 'Black' seems to be avoided by white American news anchors and in the press there, but freely used by African-Americans,
African-American is an attempt to replicate this and disown names with racist overtones, but it is strangely synthetic. Most came from West Africa but their ancestors would not, necessarily, have had anything in common: different tribes, different languages,different cultures, but the same fate. Martin Luther King referred to 'the ***' in his "I have a dream" speech, but that may not be acceptable now, in any context. 'Black' seems to be avoided by white American news anchors and in the press there, but freely used by African-Americans,
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