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.
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.