Re:The Wikipedia War That Shows How Ugly This Election Will Be
by mc32 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:26PM
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What would people in Jamaica designate a person in mixed Indian and Jamaican descent, take that and add American. That’s the answer. Someone whose parents are from Ghana would be Ghanaian-American, rather than African American. Traditionally African American is for black Americans of African descent that were brought to US via the slave trade. The same way a white Uruguayan isn’t called european American but Uruguayan-American.
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Re:The Wikipedia War That Shows How Ugly This Election Will Be
by __sisyphus__ on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:09PM
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I tend to agree with this. I found a lot of the arguments from the article for her being "African-American" unconvincing.
From one perspective, I suppose one could make the argument that most "African-Jamaicans" would hold a similar distinction to "Africa-Americans" in that they share a common lineage. If you transitively apply that shared property, perhaps you could say that she's an African American "once removed" or whatever you want to call it. Although I'm not really sure how convincing I find that either.
What I wonder—is this distinction important one way or another to actual African Americans? Or is this actually just a contrived political battle?