The term African-American: Right or Wrong?
The term African-American is quite odd actually. Why do you black Americans call yourselves that? Not all blacks are from Africa. Do they call whites European-American? Well, it would also be silly because not all whites are European. What if you are mixed and you have really dark skin or really light skin which continent takes precedence before the -American? Here in Canada we just say you're Canadian and if you want to get more deeper you say black, white, mixed Canadian. If you know where you originated from then you say the country and then Canadian after. All in all you we just say Canadian.
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