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Old 05-13-2006, 01:44 PM
Munchkin03 Munchkin03 is offline
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Originally posted by kdonline
My few cents:


* As for Teresa Heinz, I know a university professor who was born & raised in South Africa. He is now a naturalized American. He says why shouldn't he call himself an African American, when that's what he really is?? (but this is for another thread..!)
A lot of people had problems with THK calling herself African because she benefitted from the colonialism (she grew up Portuguese in Mozambique) that took place. I personally really liked her, but felt she had a pretty bad case of F-I-M disease.
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