É uma parvoíce.
Os americanos procuram uma forma politicamente correcta de dizer "negros", portanto dizem "African Americans". Da mesma forma aos imigrantes mexicanos chamam de "latinos" (?!?!?!?).
Engraçado que aos Sul-africanos brancos que por acaso vivem nos Estados Unidos, não se dá o nome de African Americans...
Por mim é Caucasianos/Brancos, Negros, Orientais (vulgo "chineses"), Árabes
Recomendo a leitura do seguinte artigo do Maddox:
First of all, the label "African American" is the dumbest, most persistently used phrase in our vernacular. Every time you call someone an "African American," you're making at least two assumptions about the person: 1. That the person is an American. For example, if you saw this guy walking along on a street, you would probably think:
...which is fine, except for one small detail: this man is British, which makes you a presumptuous cock.
2. That the person is African (because it's inconceivable that black people could come from Haiti, India, Trinidad, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Australia, or Jamaica). Nevermind that; BLACK PEOPLE ONLY COME FROM AFRICA.
Not to mention that every time you give a black person the distinction of being "African American" out of a mixed group, you're making an assumption about an entire continent; not everyone from Africa is black. I guarantee all you politically correct morons out there have never called a white person an African American. Of course you could avoid all these problems by using the same standards on blacks as you would on whites by simply assuming that all whites are from Africa just as you do for all blacks, but that might be too forward, and in a polite society like ours, people would be all too pleased to point out which of the 192 countries you didn't guess they were actually from.
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