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re: Your mind will wrap itself in knots if you ponder the term 'African American'
Posted on 3/3/17 at 1:23 pm to HempHead
Posted on 3/3/17 at 1:23 pm to HempHead
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I can't recall ever hearing anyone actually use those terms. I know they exist in a book somewhere, but does anyone actually say that?
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Recent immigrant privilege language. Most Southerners do not have ancestral records or any family stories about where they came from.
Sweet I discovered I have a new privilege today!
I think Hemp kinda answers the first question. A lot of people don't because of "the melting pot." White southerners are, for example, more Southern than Irish or
British.
But among groups that immigrated in the last 100ish years, yes that term gets used. Honestly the -American part often gets dropped in informal conversation, e.g. "kiss me I am Irish" but in more formal writing it gets added back.
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Posted on 3/3/17 at 1:32 pm to BigJim
I think recent ancestry is used when someone is asked, "where is your family from?" but I have heard absolutely no white person who was born in America use any prefix to describe themselves. As you said, though, that's due to the melting pot. I think that's because it's easy for Europeans of any extraction to just simply become 'white' in America without any national affiliation, which that same effect is why minorities may keep their own heritage closer.
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