are the white people who are born and raised in Africa, considered African?
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DUH if you're born in Africa no matter what color you are you are African. they're all kinds of Africans,black white Chinese Italians ,etc. just like it's all kind of Americans. Peace Out
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Caucasians in Africa call themselves white or by the  country's name ex: South Afrikaner or Nigerian.  When whites migrate to America they realize it's more advantageous if they call themselves plain old white.  \n\nWon't you do the same thing? Unless you think  blacks have been given too much and need to be be worse off than they are and so you wish to take the tag for yourself just to compete with the - measly - edge you imagine we have. \n\nNo one in their right mind wants to be treated badly and unfairly. I would do the same if I were white too, just so I'll get the automatic privileges whites get.\n\nAfrican American is term reserved for all  blacks - with the option to call foreign blacks by their nationality.\n\nAffirmative Action is less than 40 years, slavery over 400 -you have not yet repaid us in full for those terrible years. Now live with it!!  And I hope when you drop on the floor you never get up!\n\n\nThis is a popular topic in this forum - I'm beginning to realize it's a code to incite.  The people who object to the term African American have no problem calling us the n* word.
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Is the African American Black or White?
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Funny, I thought about that too. Not only are there people of European descent in Africa but most north Africans (Berbers and Arabs) are classified as 'white' too. I wish we could get rid of all the racial labels and just be HUMAN. Also, some East Indian and Native Americans are as dark as or darker than 'black' people. Racial labels are stupid.
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I think that is a really good thought provoking question.  But you have to consider to that Africa was also affected by the slavery trade as well as being Colonised by European countries.  In fact it wasn't until the late 20th century that South Africa was still under the complete control of European Colonists.  But as an African American I can say that I am very happy and fill privileged to be born in America.
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if you are from Africa but being black doesn't necessarily follow as some whites are African too. I would then call myself black Chinese or if I were a humorist maybe chigro. anyhow the point being nationality and race are sometimes two different things.not that this applies in your case as I don't have sufficient info. also if you are African and married Chinese your children would indisputably be Afro-Chinese  racially and not just by country.so their is sometimes a fine line of difference between ethnic by country and ethnic by racial and ethnic by religion or even tribe .\nI would say i was of italian or irish hungarian descent but italians would take exception and i've never been out of the US so I just settle for American as I was born here and like the native american association although I'm officially caucasion which ignores my anscestry. mostly I really prefer the seldom used claim of earthling which includes everybody so far!\npeaceout and enjoy the life!
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White (also White people, White race or Whites) is a term used for a certain ethnic group or racial classification of people. Though literally implying light-skinned, "White" has been used in different ways at different times and places. Like other common words for the human ethnicities, its precise definition is somewhat unclear.\n\nA common connotation to the various definitions of "White" is that the term refers to people descended from European and adjacent areas, such as North Africa and the Middle East. Regions and countries that are today predominantly light skinned include all the countries of Europe, the Middle East, North America, parts of South America, Siberia, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nThe most recent United States Census (2000) defined the 'White' race as follows: "The term White refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa." It includes people who indicated their race or races as "White" or wrote in entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Israeli, Syrian, Lebanese, Portuguese, or Polish."\n\nThe term has always had various definitions and interpretations at different times and places. Across the globe, and especially throughout the Western Hemisphere, a person's inclusion or exclusion from the the "White" group has been affected by past or present colloquial, scientific and legal understandings, including definitions based for such purposes as censuses, anti-miscegenation laws, affirmative action, racial quotas. All these, and the groups they involve, are explored throughout the article.\n\nThe need for operational definitions\n\nLike aesthetic terms such as beauty and balance, religious terms such as sin and grace, and political terms such as liberal and conservative, the terms White and Black reflect something important in the minds of those who use them, even if they cannot be defined objectively so that their application can be independently tested. The claim that any specific individual is Black or White cannot be falsified, so the concept can have no scientific value unless some operational definition of how one determines that a person is White is given. In scientific studies, more precise definitions than "White" or "Black" are usually provided. For example, in the large collaborative study of the HapMap which includes Whites and Blacks among four populations being examined, the terms used are "whites of Western and Northern European descent residing in Utah", and "Yoruba people, residing in Ibadan, Nigeria".\n\nThere is no single, universally-accepted, biological trait that allows a yes/no determination of whether a person is White or not. The operational definitions used in scientific work are not "absolute" either, but rather vary in specificity according to the purposes of the study or of the hypotheses being tested, and are chosen partly as a matter of convenience and cost. The operations, for example, could range from how the subject answers questions about himself on a survey, to the response of a light meter held against the skin with a cut-off meter-reading specified, to which of several ancestry-informative markers are present in the genes of the individual. These may, of course, be used alone or in combination.\n\nA problem with the appearance definition alone is that, as routinely demonstrated in college-level cultural-anthropology classes, "racial" appearance is partly in the eye of the beholder. The same individual seen as White by a Cuban can be seen as Black by an American. Furthermore, such perceptions change over time. Appearance alone is not easy to quantify or judge with complete precision, and can, of course, be deceiving.\n\nA problem with the self-identity definition alone is that there are often advantages and privileges among racial categories, so people will sometimes choose one or another
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Typical White People.
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dont know but i supose its the same as why are africans black or europeons manly white and so on
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It depends to whom you are talking.  I don't remember "White" people being enslaved to the Egyptians.  However, the Hebrews (Jews) were enslaved for 400 years.\nI think they got over it.\n\nGet over it, it is history.\n\nI heard a black preacher one day say: "I thank God for the white man bringing the black man to this country in whatever way possible, if they hadn't, WE would not be here, but in Africa."  \n\nProfound.
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If I am Black? Well I am half black. I came from my mom and dad. they came from American soil. My grandparents were born in America. my great-grandparents on both sides were born in America. I'm as American as anyone. There is no way to know where my mother's ancestor's came from; slaves were taken from all over west Africa. but based on my and my mom's  bone and facial structure (AND who my grandparents look like) I'd say my ancestors came from Egypt and South Africa.
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Two Africans were kidnapped and brought to America as slaves, a man and a woman. The woman gets pregnant by the man. Would her baby not still be be African? Black people are African in race. We are American if we are born in America. The same goes for white people. You are not American just because you are white. You just happened to be born here. You may be Dutch, British, German or whatever. The only people of American ancestory is the Native American. What I want to know is why white people worry so much about what black people call themselves.
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Why genetically are white people white? Black people black? European people darker skinned? European men hairier?\n\nThe list goes on!\n\nJUST BECAUSE
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They are probably referred because their roots are from Africa. Their forefathers lived there.\n\nThough I am not Black (neither I am American), I would prefer to call you a Canadian (if I knew your name, I would call you by your name) rather than a black Canadian.
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This is an confusing issue, indeed. Just because a person is from Africa does not mean that they are African American. The term African-American is specifically for blacks born in America who are from black African decent (the Negroid race). The term is not used for Caucasian or Mongoloid people from African nor for blacks who were born in Africa.
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Its true that melanin controls the color of the skin, but I assume you are asking the entire genetic difference.  First, there is no definition in science for a black or white person, and even individuals would differ in what they consider dark enough to be black, or light enough to be white- But even assuming you had a definition, based on how dark a person is, there isnt any clear genetic difference.  In fact, people from Ethiopia and Somalia are more closely related to European caucasians then they are to west African tribes.  Extremely dark people from the Indian subcontinent are closely related to Europeans, and are genetically considered nearly identical-Native Australians are not very closely related (relatively speaking) to African blacks.  The skin color of a person is only one aspect of thousands of characteristics-it just happens to be one that we can easily see.  If you look at blood types, certain african groups are more closely related to Ethnic Slavs than the slavs are to other European groups (even though the slavs "look" like other Europeans)- this is only one example of many that have been found...what a person looks like appears to have very little to do with genetic relatedness.
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Yes, Ethiopians are considered Black and have sharp noses and thin lips associated with whites.\n\nHOWEVER, look at the Scottish and their large noses and the myth that only blacks have noses with spread nostrils QUICKLY dissipates.\n\nMost blacks in the West come from WEST Africa and look totally different from East Africans and North Africans, and even South (not the country) Africans.\n\nthe NEGROID race has VAST varieties. \n\nI know, I hate the word negroid too but it illustrates a fact.