[Mz_Doc]

Reading through this thread actually got me thinking about a conversation I had with a friend a couple of weeks ago. He had asked me if I preferred being called black, African American, or African, since I was born in Nigeria and both of my parents are Nigerian. He stated that he wanted to know my opinion because his girlfriend is Ghanian and she got very upset when someone had called her African American and she demanded to be called African instead because that's where she came from.

Now I personally don't care what I am referred to as simply because I know who I am inside and where I came from. Because I have grown up in the US and do not have an accent, many people assume that I was born here so it would not cross their mind that I would be African. When it comes up in conversation, I will tell people about my background, but I don't feel it necessary to explain it to everyone all the time.

Basically to sum it up, what are your thoughts on this?