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So my last day of Communications 105 was today

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BlancoNino

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He kept referring to all people of African ethnicity as African-Americans. He called people who are living in Africa, "African Americans".

I never said anything, but I always thought in my head he was wrong. Well, was he wrong?

Discuss.
 
Originally posted by: Bulldog13
WTF
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The questions is this...

Are people who were born and live in Africa supposed to be called "African Americans". This is what my professor called them. I think he is wrong.

 
i thought for sure you were banned after your last parody thread.

Originally posted by: BlancoNino Does she have to love herself?

Discuss.

Edit: Fixed...sorry. Meant to talk about girl's who have self-esteem issues.

Edit2: Are parody threads lock/ban material even if they have a legit question and aren't just stupid? It's just another topic in my opinion. If so, sorry, didn't know that.

Only idiots test the Mods. I'm sure you meant well.

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Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: Bulldog13
WTF
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The questions is this...

Are people who were born and live in Africa supposed to be called "African Americans". This is what my professor called them. I think he is wrong.
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Unless you have dual citizenship, you're either an African or an American. Every African I've ever met thought it was absolutely ridiculous for American blacks to call themselves African.

I'm sure if I dug deep enough into my family history, I could call myself a Sumerian-American, but since I'm an adult who was born in America, I really don't see the need to use artificial labels to define my identity.
 
Originally posted by: Buck Armstrong
Unless you have dual citizenship, you're either an African or an American. Every African I've ever met thought it was absolutely ridiculous for American blacks to call themselves African.
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I kind of agree with that. I think all legal citizens of the United States should just be called Americans and we should toss all of the background crap.

Of course, I had no problems with my professor calling American-born black people "African Americans"...I just thought it was odd he called people who lived in africa that as well, as there is no part of them that is "American".
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: Buck Armstrong
Unless you have dual citizenship, you're either an African or an American. Every African I've ever met thought it was absolutely ridiculous for American blacks to call themselves African.
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I kind of agree with that. I think all legal citizens of the United States should just be called Americans and we should toss all of the background crap.

Of course, I had no problems with my professor calling American-born black people "African Americans"...I just thought it was odd he called people who lived in africa that as well, as there is no part of them that is "American".
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Well, thats what happens when you convince an entire country that sensitivity is more important than truth.
 
Originally posted by: Skeeedunt
lol communications
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Yeah it's a pretty lame class.

We had 8 weeks (the entire quarter) to write our speech. I didn't start until the night before it was due, and it took me only an hour or so. I got a 92 on it. LOL.
 
I was just thinking about something similar today...what the hell do they call black people in Europe?

African-Europeans?
 
Originally posted by: redly1
I was just thinking about something similar today...what the hell do they call black people in Europe?

African-Europeans?
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Afro-European-American-African-From-Africa-Whos-Never-Actually-Been-To-Africa.
 
We're just a little obsessed with not offending people, and in the process of doing this we tend to just offend more people.
 
Originally posted by: Syringer
Did you have the same teacher as this guy?

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...threadid=962269&enterthread=y&arctab=y

we watched a movie in socialogy(about africa) and my teacher refered to the blacks in it as "african americans" even though they had never been in america. hahaha, also there is a white kid in my school who is african american. he moved here from south africa
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Don't ask me why I remember this post existed.
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:Q NO I didn't! But wow, it looks like professors everywhere are even stupider than I thought!
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: Syringer
Did you have the same teacher as this guy?

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...threadid=962269&enterthread=y&arctab=y

we watched a movie in socialogy(about africa) and my teacher refered to the blacks in it as "african americans" even though they had never been in america. hahaha, also there is a white kid in my school who is african american. he moved here from south africa
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Don't ask me why I remember this post existed.
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:Q NO I didn't! But wow, it looks like professors everywhere are even stupider than I thought!
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and judging from that sentence...looks like its more than just your professors...
 
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