White South African immigrants blowing up the neologism "African-American" makes me smile.
Hyphenated-Americans were a mistake. They don't have dual loyalties, they have a primary ethnic loyalty, which comes before their loyalty to the US-- despite linguistic protestation to the contrary after the hyphen. If it weren't so, they'd be satisfied being just plain "American," as the rest of us are.
I've seen medical forms where the options for Black and Asian are "African-American" or "Asian-American". This was confusing to a non-American Asian person I know.
tbf African American is much less popular than it once was. And a sizable population has always preferred "black". I don't think it was black people pushing "African American".
White South African immigrants blowing up the neologism "African-American" makes me smile.
Hyphenated-Americans were a mistake. They don't have dual loyalties, they have a primary ethnic loyalty, which comes before their loyalty to the US-- despite linguistic protestation to the contrary after the hyphen. If it weren't so, they'd be satisfied being just plain "American," as the rest of us are.
I have seen SJW types call a Caribbean origin, British woman an African-American.
I've seen medical forms where the options for Black and Asian are "African-American" or "Asian-American". This was confusing to a non-American Asian person I know.
tbf African American is much less popular than it once was. And a sizable population has always preferred "black". I don't think it was black people pushing "African American".
Yeah. The current neologism is giving black the capital "B" and leaving white uncapitalized.
Not sad to see "African American" go.