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The "N" word

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waffleironhead said:
Something tells me you are reading your own bias into other peoples posts. Looking for something that isnt really there.
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Actually I'm in complete agreement with him. I read a large number of forums and I've never seen a place as racist against blacks as ATOT.
 
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The funniest thing about the word. I have Chinese friends and they use the word, sounds just like great person to mean black people. This is not meant to be derogatory just what they say.
Though all black people are negros, not all are N 🙂.

I kinda find it hard to use that word...
 
KeypoX said:
The funniest thing about the word. I have Chinese friends and they use the word, sounds just like great person to mean black people. This is not meant to be derogatory just what they say.
Though all black people are negros, not all are N 🙂.

I kinda find it hard to use that word...
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Your Chinese friends are low class F-Tards.
 
classy said:
You can't be serious? There is like 10 black people here total. You can spend days reading all the outright anti-black racist nonsense posted here over the years. God just Obama hatred alone can take weeks to read. And sometimes its so obvious they might as well let the dudes use the n-word. Hell it ain't like they are trying to hide anything.

And its really funny when they say how come I can't call them that. They use the word against each other all the time.
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If you're not born there, you're not fucking African you thick skulled mother fuckers.

And by that I mean white people.
 
Tristicus said:
If you're not born there, you're not fucking African you thick skulled mother fuckers.

And by that I mean white people.
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Well, that's the thing.... there are white African Americans just the same.

Also, agreed that if you're not born there you shouldn't be calling yourself African-American b/c you aren't.
 
moshquerade said:
Well, that's the thing.... there are white African Americans just the same.

Also, agreed that if you're not born there you shouldn't be calling yourself African-American b/c you aren't.
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No, you can't just be a white African American if you were born in Africa. You wouldn't be an American (for one), you would be European-*African-nation* if you lived as a Citizen of an African nation.

If you were born in Africa, and your parents are American living in Africa temporarily, and you are white, that just makes you American. It does not make you African by any means.
 
MJinZ said:
No, you can't just be a white African American if you were born in Africa. You wouldn't be an American (for one), you would be European-*African-nation* if you lived as a Citizen of an African nation.

If you were born in Africa, and your parents are American living in Africa temporarily, and you are white, that just makes you American. It does not make you African by any means.
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I am taking about someone who was born in Africa (a native) and now lives in America. I don't care if their skin color is purple. That is a true African American.

Too many people claim to be African American and are so far removed from Africa that it's ridiculous. It's a case of most of us using our ancestor's country of birth and hyphenating it followed by "American". It doesn't really need to be done.
 
moshquerade said:
I am taking about someone who was born in Africa (a native) and now lives in America. I don't care if their skin color is purple. That is a true African American.

Too many people claim to be African American and are so far removed from Africa that it's ridiculous. It's a case of most of us using our ancestor's country of birth and hyphenating it followed by "American". It doesn't really need to be done.
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I don't think that's how it works. The prefix denotes ethnicity - regardless of where you are born, you are ethnically either European, Asian, African, Indian, Middle-eastern etc, Native American, etc and/or mixed.
 
MJinZ said:
I don't think that's how it works. The prefix denotes ethnicity - regardless of where you are born, you are ethnically either European, Asian, African, Indian, Middle-eastern etc, Native American, etc and/or mixed.
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So what do you denote yourself as? What comes before the " - American" for you?
 
MJinZ said:
I don't think that's how it works. The prefix denotes ethnicity - regardless of where you are born, you are ethnically either European, Asian, African, Indian, Middle-eastern etc, Native American, etc and/or mixed.
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I think what she is pointing out is that the prefix is not necessary and only serves to separate you from the rest of the nation.

Its the "no,no,no I'm not an american....I'm an asian-american"
 
moshquerade said:
Nothing.

See, that's my point.
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Heh, I understand that but that isn't really relevant to this discussion.

If you had to objectively classify Americans based on their skin color or ethnicity, that's what you would call me - and you would call black people "African Americans", "Hispanic Americans/Latino Americans" etc.

White American is a less used term since White = majority of Americans; and it is inferred to be the case if there is not distinction made. It also isn't very useful as a term since it is a blanket term for European ethnic origin.

I'm just talking about census based objective stuff obviously, making a distinction in what kind of American you are in a social context is often debated and I'm not debating that at all (but you can probably inductively conclude my thoughts on that based on my responses so far anyway).
 
waffleironhead said:
I think what she is pointing out is that the prefix is not necessary and only serves to separate you from the rest of the nation.

Its the "no,no,no I'm not an american....I'm an asian-american"
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Yes, that's the social usage debate, which I agree with you there.

But when it comes down to it, why say you are American at all? Just get to the "We're all people" and be done with it right?
 
MJinZ said:
Yes, that's the social usage debate, which I agree with you there.

But when it comes down to it, why say you are American at all? Just get to the "We're all people" and be done with it right?
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because then the competition of the olympics would be useless

Team planet Earth shall play against... uh... planet Earth
 
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