Brazilian,Jamaicans etc. are AA now?...
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Elle Driver
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The ones I grew up with never call themselves AA, they are adamant about being Afro Caribbean.
Technically they are.Or am I reading this wrong
If you are born in North, Central or South America or the Caribbean you are technically AMERICAN because you are from the AMERICAN CONTINENT just as French and Swedish people are all EUROPEAN.
However, Americans from the United States have always called themselves "Americans" and nothing else so people typically refer to them as such because it's just something we've gotten used to that "AMERICAN = USA" but technically all in the American Continent are American.
The Americans from the USA should really call themselves "United Statians" or some shyt
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JahFocus CS
Get It How You Get It
NO.
DonFrancisco
Your Favorite Tio!
It is called the United States of America not the US of North America
BlackPrint
The Mayor
Come on, y’all... This convo cannot be happening.
America refers to a an area comprised of two continents.
Such as
OAS - Organization of American States: Democracy for peace, security, and development
“Organization of AMERICAN STATES”
A fossil found in Nebraska and a fossil found in Brasil are both referred to as “Americana” pieces.
The idea precedes any ethnic classification by hundreds of years.
A black person in Brasil is an Afro American, but not a descendant of American Slavery(which specifically refers to slavery in the United States). The idea of African American nationalism (the coli’s brand atleast) is grounded in where your ancestors were enslaved (even though that’s flawed because slaves constantly moved around the Americas).
Afro American in the context OP used refers broadly to Diasporan populations in the Americas.
Passports are important.
America refers to a an area comprised of two continents.
Such as
OAS - Organization of American States: Democracy for peace, security, and development
“Organization of AMERICAN STATES”
A fossil found in Nebraska and a fossil found in Brasil are both referred to as “Americana” pieces.
The idea precedes any ethnic classification by hundreds of years.
A black person in Brasil is an Afro American, but not a descendant of American Slavery(which specifically refers to slavery in the United States). The idea of African American nationalism (the coli’s brand atleast) is grounded in where your ancestors were enslaved (even though that’s flawed because slaves constantly moved around the Americas).
Afro American in the context OP used refers broadly to Diasporan populations in the Americas.
Passports are important.
Na that's some bs...
That's like people in African countries saying they different when African was carved up by Europeans and split into diff countries.
Only difference we got is where the slave boat stopped for real for real.
Elle Driver
Veteran
We all the same yet different.
black canadians and mexicans dont get label AA because they weren't born in the USA, not because they didnt go through the struggle.Not true. Even though America is a continent (not a country *U.S. took ownership of the word America*), AA's are U.S. citizens in the USA. I get what he's saying, but no. Also, AA's have their own culture.
P.S. Black Canadians and Mexicans wouldn't be AA. Why? Because they don't have the same culture as us nor went through the struggles in THIS country like AA's have.
Still, at the end of the day, we are all 'children and descendants' of the motherland. You all are my brother and sister in the struggle
if a black person with canadian parents was born here, he would technically be African American.
Or am I reading this wrong
One person said that, breh
Pit Bull
GATOR
Most African Americans don't give a fukk about this shyt. All they know is black. It's you goofy foreign nikkas that like to divide shyt. "Me not like them American Yankee neegar, me different, me work fi white man not talk back".
HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
So technically I’m African American
I’ve never heard Santeria be referred to as a specifically African American spiritual system
Good thread, breh.
Yall nikkas sound absolutely delusional. Lord Jesus of Nazareth, take me now.
MischievousMonkey
Gor bu dëgër
All of this boils down to the fact "The United States of XXX" is a trash ass name for a country
True but in many south American countries this is taught differently.
There is no North and South America, there is just America.
There are not 7 continents in their academic books, there are 6
Having said that, I've never heard a south American black refer to themselves and AA
