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Originally posted by Tom Earp
He wondered since Africa is a Continent, and Black people who come from Africa want to be known as African Americans!
Does that make the rest of us who are White and are from America, a part of the North American Continent, American-Americans?
If you are from Asia and are Asian Americans, why are you not just American-Americans?
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Ummmmm....a lot of black people
born in the USA refer to themselves as African-American. As for white people born in the USA, I guess you'd be European-American, since Europe is pretty much where white people came from (even Australians and white people living in Africa...their ancestors came from Europe at some point in history). After all, we all came from somewhere (with the exception of Native Indian/First Nation/Aboriginal peoples...I won't get into the whole crossing the Bering Strait and all that)
For a mini sidebar / hijack, you should know that people in Latin America refer to South America as "America". I was in a museum in Santiago, and the tour guide kept talking about "Here in America this, and here in America that". And no, she didn't mean the USA.