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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
Ok I've always wondered this and I hope it doesn't get taken the wrong way.
What if you're caucasian, from Africa, and moved to America. Would you still be considered African American?
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Literally yes... but in practice no - just as most people from North Africa aren't really refered to as African American. Historically the term African American has been applied to "Black" Americans whos' ancestory lies in Sub-Sahara Africa; and in fact the US government used to label anyone "with one drop of 'black' blood as "black" - to me African American has just become a PC way of labelling someone by skin colour; without refering to a 'cline' such as caucasian - because of the indirectly negative conotations of the 'cline' negroid...