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Old 02-24-2009, 06:48 PM   #235 (permalink)
batlash
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Originally Posted by revenant View Post
No, you can just call them African.
*LOL* why would we call them AFRICAN rather than AFRICAN-AMERICAN? We tend to refer to them as "black" ( if for some reason we have to refer to them by race ) or by region/country they're from ( such as "trinidadian"). I know my youngest brother is black ( he's adopted ) and he tends to wince at the term "AFRICAN-AMERICAN" because:
1) he's not African
2) he's not American
and African-Canadian just sounds awkward at best.
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