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Originally Posted by Ch2tf
I would say no, but I also recognize that a person in that situation would not be able to be convinced otherwise, if you get what I mean.
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Indeed I do.
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Originally Posted by Ch2tf
I think the only person that can answer that is the one who chooses to use the term.
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I guess that's what the person just attempted to do.
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Originally Posted by Ch2tf
It definately is. When I wrote that she can call herself what she wants, I was more leaning to if you self identify as brown then "good for you", to each his own. Using the term "brown american" over "black american" over "african american" is rather moot to me, personally. I happen to be all those thing. I tend to use black american/african american 1. because that is what I've been "made" to use, i.e. filling out forms, job applications etc. But I also do believe it speaks to my heritage. Unfortunately, like many Americans of African descent I cannot specifically state that my roots are ghanain or nigerian, or congolese, so I use African-American.
But I do feel like we (the people in the USA) suffer from "hyphenation syndrome". If someone's family imigrated to the USA from Nigeria and had children, and those children had children, etc." when does someone stop being Nigerian(American), and become African-American (kinda a rhetorical question, but it doesn't have to be).
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I hear ya.
