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At some point won't African immigrants just become AA?
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AlainLocke
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I don't care for nothing in Africa...and I wouldn't moved to Liberia like them other nikkas did.
The Americas is my homeland.
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You gotta give me a hook up on the White textbooks you've been reading. That's unless you're some 8 year old still undergoing brain development. Thankfully this is only the internet where you can get away with nonsense like this lol.
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I think the funniest thing about threads such as these are that its only part of a delusion that some lonely sad black person makes when he sucks at life lol. My life sucks so why not attack and blame others LMAO.
The reality is the Pan - African movement is as strong as its ever been, and the majority of AA's aren't "waking up" to the "realities" of Africans.
Some of ya'll are hurt in real life and just want something to talk about, while passing bigotry. How does it feel knowing when you log off the PC, that the whole world is moving the opposite way from your fantasies LMAO.
The reality is the Pan - African movement is as strong as its ever been, and the majority of AA's aren't "waking up" to the "realities" of Africans.
Some of ya'll are hurt in real life and just want something to talk about, while passing bigotry. How does it feel knowing when you log off the PC, that the whole world is moving the opposite way from your fantasies LMAO.
He's Nigerian-American and always stated that he was.So according to the coli Wale isn't AA?
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I don't care how Phat black pearls ass or or how much KidStranglehold watches porn or much of a c00n Poitier is.
IRL every AA i know wants people like myself to identify as AA. I don't care either way.
Your simply a GROWN ASS MAN who doesnt know who he is. Who cares what AA's who are culturally unaware say
AlainLocke
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Yall have different definition of AA s
Because some of us aren't going by the USA definition.
It's basically Pan African Americanism...
Those of us that are born in the Americas and descendants of slaves should tie our roots to the Americas. This is where we originate.
And sociologists and shyt when doing studies on the African Diaspora...have made us into a distinct group historical and biologically...so I just run with it.
It makes sense.
South Americans are American too. Canadians especially Anglophones are American too.
The USA shouldn't dictate what is American. I even started saying USA citizens instead of American when I am talking about people of the United States.
Ethnicity vs. Nationality vs. Race vs. Heritage vs. Culture
Ethnicity
Ethnicity is based on a group (called an ethnic group) that is normally based on similar traits, such as a common language, common heritage, and cultural similarities within the group. Other variables that play a role in ethnicity, though not in all cases, include a geographical connection to a particular place, common foods and diets, and perhaps a common faith. Race is a word with similar meaning though describing more physical traits, as opposed to the cultural traits of ethnicity.
Race
Race is similar to ethnicity, but relates more to the appearance of a person, especially the color of their skin. It is determined biologically, and includes other inherited genetic traits such as hair and eye color and bone and jaw structure, among other things.
Nationality
90% of the time, nationality refers to the place where the person was born and/or holds citizenship. However, often times nationality can be determined by place of residence, ethnicity, or national identity. If a person was born in Country A but immigrated to Country B while still a toddler (yes, with their family), he or she might identify more with the Country B nationality, having been raised there. Another point regarding nationality is that there are some nations that don’t have a state, or international recognition as such, yet people may still point at it as the source of their nationality, such as the Palestinians, the Kurds, and the Tamils.
Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right to a nationality,” and “No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.”
Now, let me throw a few more at you to add to the confusion:
Citizen
A citizen is typically either born in the country, born to citizens of the country while abroad, married to a citizen of the country, or becomes a citizen through the naturalization process. A citizen is a complete member of the nation, able to vote and hold elected office.
National
A national is a person born in an area that is in the possession of a country, but not part of its general administrative area. For example, American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States, and its people are considered U.S. nationals; American Samoans may not vote in U.S. presidential elections, or hold elected office in the U.S., but are entitled to free and unrestricted entry into the United States.
Heritage
Heritage can overlap on the ethnicity and nationality a bit at times, but it generally refers to the ancestors of a person, and what they identified with. For example, a child born to naturalized U.S. citizens hailing from Venezuela could say they have a Venezuelan heritage, even if they don’t share the ethnicity (perhaps they can’t speak Spanish), and they are American as far as nationality.
Culture
Culture is similar to ethnicity, yet really more of a microcosm of it. It may involve one trait or characteristic, sort of like a subset of the various traits that make up an ethnicity. Perhaps a person may be ethnically Jewish, or they could subject themselves to simply one or two things of Jewish culture, such as wearing a kippa; this person may not necessarily relate with the entire macro-ethnicity that is being Jewish.
Identity
Identity is whatever a person identifies with more, whether it be a particular country, ethnicity, religion, etc. I read this great article by Zeba Khan on MuslimMatters.org: she was born in America, to a Pakistani father and an American woman of Irish descent; she doesn’t identify with either Pakistan or Ireland (too white for Pakistan, too dark for Ireland), and not much with America (she wears the hijab and eats halal). What she does identify with is her Muslim faith, which is similar across boundaries throughout the world.
Ethnicity
Ethnicity is based on a group (called an ethnic group) that is normally based on similar traits, such as a common language, common heritage, and cultural similarities within the group. Other variables that play a role in ethnicity, though not in all cases, include a geographical connection to a particular place, common foods and diets, and perhaps a common faith. Race is a word with similar meaning though describing more physical traits, as opposed to the cultural traits of ethnicity.
Race
Race is similar to ethnicity, but relates more to the appearance of a person, especially the color of their skin. It is determined biologically, and includes other inherited genetic traits such as hair and eye color and bone and jaw structure, among other things.
Nationality
90% of the time, nationality refers to the place where the person was born and/or holds citizenship. However, often times nationality can be determined by place of residence, ethnicity, or national identity. If a person was born in Country A but immigrated to Country B while still a toddler (yes, with their family), he or she might identify more with the Country B nationality, having been raised there. Another point regarding nationality is that there are some nations that don’t have a state, or international recognition as such, yet people may still point at it as the source of their nationality, such as the Palestinians, the Kurds, and the Tamils.
Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right to a nationality,” and “No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.”
Now, let me throw a few more at you to add to the confusion:
Citizen
A citizen is typically either born in the country, born to citizens of the country while abroad, married to a citizen of the country, or becomes a citizen through the naturalization process. A citizen is a complete member of the nation, able to vote and hold elected office.
National
A national is a person born in an area that is in the possession of a country, but not part of its general administrative area. For example, American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States, and its people are considered U.S. nationals; American Samoans may not vote in U.S. presidential elections, or hold elected office in the U.S., but are entitled to free and unrestricted entry into the United States.
Heritage
Heritage can overlap on the ethnicity and nationality a bit at times, but it generally refers to the ancestors of a person, and what they identified with. For example, a child born to naturalized U.S. citizens hailing from Venezuela could say they have a Venezuelan heritage, even if they don’t share the ethnicity (perhaps they can’t speak Spanish), and they are American as far as nationality.
Culture
Culture is similar to ethnicity, yet really more of a microcosm of it. It may involve one trait or characteristic, sort of like a subset of the various traits that make up an ethnicity. Perhaps a person may be ethnically Jewish, or they could subject themselves to simply one or two things of Jewish culture, such as wearing a kippa; this person may not necessarily relate with the entire macro-ethnicity that is being Jewish.
Identity
Identity is whatever a person identifies with more, whether it be a particular country, ethnicity, religion, etc. I read this great article by Zeba Khan on MuslimMatters.org: she was born in America, to a Pakistani father and an American woman of Irish descent; she doesn’t identify with either Pakistan or Ireland (too white for Pakistan, too dark for Ireland), and not much with America (she wears the hijab and eats halal). What she does identify with is her Muslim faith, which is similar across boundaries throughout the world.
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We all originated from the same place
Funny how this site complains about Africans have theattitude towards AAs when this thread is showing quite the opposite.
I love AAs, plenty of AA friends as I grew up running track but I have no interest in abandoning my culture into the AA community
And from what I've seen, most of yall only interested in us primarily for the exotic "motherland" p*ssy.
AlainLocke
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I know exactly what I am black and African American
Your simply a GROWN ASS MAN who doesnt know who he is. Who cares what AA's who are culturally unaware say
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Looking at people driving cabs is an ignorant way of judging a group people. At the end of the day Nigerian-Americans and many African immigrants in America have high overall average incomes per household.