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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 1:37 pm to L.A.
Posted on 3/3/17 at 1:37 pm to L.A.
quote:Those terms were used often 100 or so years ago to differentiate from immigrants and first-generation Americans. For example:
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?
Boris and Svetlana, born in Moscow, immigrate to New York. They are Russian.
Boris and Svetlana have a baby boy. Isaac is Russian-American.
Isaac married and has a son. Jaden is American.
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Posted on 3/3/17 at 1:38 pm to ballscaster
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Boris and Svetlana, born in Moscow, immigrate to New York. They are Russian.
Boris and Svetlana have a baby boy. Isaac is Russian-American.
Isaac married and has a son. Jaden is American.
That makes a lot of sense. You aren't so bad when you aren't being a willful contrarian.
Posted on 3/3/17 at 1:56 pm to ballscaster
quote:I'm not so sure about that. 100 years ago Irish immigrants were called Irish, not Irish-Americans. Or they were called worse. It's one reason European immigrants from that era tried to assimilate ASAP. There was quite a bit of bigotry aimed at immigrants. The sooner one assimilated, the better it was for that person
Those terms were used often 100 or so years ago to differentiate from immigrants and first-generation Americans.
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