there are white people from Africa. so why do we call black people born in the US African Americans? it sounds like the term was started to be politically correct but it doesnt make sense
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Because no white people started out in Africa. They originated from Europe.
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Because they descend from Africans.
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Aren't ancestral natives of Africa black?
The white Africans are basically immigrants.
But I can't be sure, so meh.
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Quote: from Cadbury Jones at 5:57 pm on May 28, 2010
Aren't ancestral natives of Africa black?
The white Africans are basically immigrants.
But I can't be sure, so meh.
no, you're right. White africans are mostly south africans, and they're mostly descended from dutch.
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Besides which there are who knows how many separate national and ethnic groups on the African continent. I think it was just a way to fit in with other hyphenated Americans.
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IIRC they're called afrikaaners and I think most of them are dutch descendants or something like that. I'm not 100% on this though.
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well yea like north africans we obviously are black. If you have a ma you know not all africans are black.
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As people already said, it's because white people in africa are there because they colonized the continent. The "native" race is black.
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Quote: from justsomekid1 at 1:32 pm on May 28, 2010
well yea like north africans we obviously are somewhat black. If you have a map you know not all africans are black.
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