If you can be an African American, can you be an American African? http://t.co/7M0U7JXlMl
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 27, 2015
http://www.7continentslist.com/
If there are African Americans, are there any of the following?
- African North Americans
- African South Americans
- African Antarcticans
- African Asians
- African Australians
- African Europeans
- North American Africans
- North American South Americans
- North American Antarticans
- North American Asians
- North American Australians
- North American Europeans
- South American Africans
- South American North Americans
- South American Antarcticans
- South American Asians
- South American Australians
- South American Europeans
- Antarctican North Americans
- Antarctican South Americans
- Antarctican Africans
- Antarctican Asians
- Antarctican Australians
- Antarctican Europeans
- Asian Africans
- Asian North Americans
- Asian South Americans
- Asian Antarticans
- Asian Australians
- Asian Europeans
- European Africans
- European North Americans
- European South Americans
- European Antarcticans
- European Africans
- European Asians
- European Australians
Why don't black people do us all a favour and decide ONCE AND FOR ALL what to call themselves??
It is annoying to be told when you call black people what you think they are called for them to give you a hard time and say "Ew, that's so last year! We stopped calling ourselves that months ago. Get with it, Dominic Cabbagepatch!"
I suggest all black people call themselves IC3 and let white people call themselves IC1 to make them still feel important.
Was it black people or white people who decided what and what not are acceptable terms to refer to not just black people but any other. Native American? Afro Caribbean? Bi racial/mixed rave? Visually impaired? Gender reassignment as opposed to sex change? Partner instead of boyfriend or girlfriend? And so on... blimey!
ReplyDeleteIf you can be an African American, can you be an American African?
ReplyDeleteDunno!
ReplyDeleteIt just seems that they are calling themselves sillier and sillier names in America.
ReplyDeleteI know someone who calls himself a White African.
Plain stupid, Claire!
ReplyDeleteIf you can be a Black American you can be a White American. If you can be a Black African you can be a White African. Anyway, White Africans do exist.
ReplyDeleteAre there white Chinese and black Chinese? No, that's like me saying I'm black English. I'm a human being. We are like roses that come in different colours, but all roses.
ReplyDeleteIf you are talking about continents, you are entitled to expect that all the people of a continent are not one race!
ReplyDeleteIt is only feels ridiculous to think of a Black Japanese or a Black Chinese because people are confusing race with nationality.
In theory it is possible to have a black man holding a Japanese passport or a Chinese passport as well as a Jamaican passport.
Just because the Chinese and Japanese are not known for giving passports to black people does not mean that they would never decide to do so, like the British did to people of all races.
But in reality no one would accept that a white man though born and raised in China is a China man.
ReplyDeleteThey would once enough of them have been born in China and were raised as Chinamen though!
ReplyDeleteThey'd still be white with European features though
ReplyDeleteThey wouldn't have slitty eyes but they would be chattering to each other in Chinese and eating with chopsticks all the time.
ReplyDeleteThey would be complaining about racial discrimination and how the Han Chinese discriminate against them and call them names and how hard life was them in China as an ethnic minority ....
But like the black people in America are not accepted as equal neither would they be.
ReplyDeleteEventually, the Chinese will have a white leader of the Chinese Communist Party just as the Americans have a black President ....
ReplyDeleteObama is half white Claire
ReplyDeleteAmerica has a half white president
Half white is not so interesting as half black!
ReplyDeleteHe's as white as he is black, Claire.
ReplyDeleteWhy do the media call him half black then?
ReplyDeleteThey don't, they call him black. Skin colouring I suppose.
ReplyDeleteLiberals like the idea of having a black President, but do the rest of America?
ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when you substitute geographical terms for national terms. African, American, European - none of them are national terms, they have no meaning. To make distinctions you fall back on racial terms but even these are indeterminate: black can mean negro or someone who is dark-skinned mixed race; whereas white means everyone who isn't black!
ReplyDeleteBut none of this will matter in the shiny happy future under the world government when we will all be Terrans - and everyone will have a microchip and we'll each identify each other by barcode...
I have tried to highlight the absurdity that results after one makes a category mistake.
ReplyDeleteThe category mistake I refer to is the confusion and conflation of nationality and race.
One cannot change the race one was born sd, but one can acquire and lose one's nationality/passports.
Just because there are no black people currently holding Chinese passports does not mean that this could not happen.
Such people would be called IC3 Chinese nationals.
When the population of China halves very soon after decades of their disastrous one-child policy, they will find themselves in dire need of immigrant labour.
I think they prefer to call themselves Blasians - black asians - rather than IC3 Chinese nationals.
ReplyDeleteBut they are victims of racial discrimination! Down with the BNP-style fascists at Beijing!
It's time China's blasians were given passports, housing, benefits and the vote. A black vote of course. and they will need a black history month to explain how their ancestors have always been living in China and in fact invented everything in China but are now suffering from institutionalized racism etc.
Certainly China needs to do more to celebrate its black heritage. - And no need to worry about population decline, more hùnxiěr are on the way.