That's precisely the trouble. In NI, when someone ask you if you are Catholic or Protestant and you answer you are Danish, they leave you alone. In the US on the other hand, you get dragged in no matter what. If you are from Nigeria you still get thrown in with regular "African Americans". That has interesting results, because for university admission purposes, black is black. However, amongst Nigerian immigrants education is highly regarded, amongst Americans in general, not so much. One would predict that at top-25 universities, Nigerians are highly overrepresented.

Thanks! Made it even clearer what the problem in the US is, i lived for >1.5 y in Tanzania Kenya Rwanda and Namibia, and the Culture (Food, Music, Cloth, TV, Soap-operas, Religion etc) is so vastly different as if you would compare Iceland to South Italy.

I think it terrible what the US is heading too (equalizing culture with skin-color)

Most African-Americans, particularly the descendants of slaves, have essentially been forced through a cultural funnel to become a new thing. Up until retail DNA testing, the average AA person would have no idea if their ancestors were from Angola or Sudan or Zimbabwe. Teaching ancestral language and culture was generally forbidden. People from a vast set of backgrounds were forced together. Sometimes bred against their will. We are not "heading to" equating culture with skin color, we did it as a matter of policy centuries ago. And it's produced an incredibly vibrant culture at that. African-Americans are arguably the most significant cultural force in the world through music and entertainment.

>Americans are arguably the most significant cultural force in the world through music and entertainment.

Oh man that's some small minded simpleton-vibes here :)

Slavery crushed a lot of them into a cultural group with a shared history no matter where their ancestors originally came from or their cultural backgrounds.

There are of course those who immigrated later.

Yes, except for more recent African immigrants.

Ah, the wast minority since 1865?