Tell me now.

[Tessu]

Are there any people here, who are of African descent, who will be offended if I call them black and personally request for me to call them African-American?

Please, speak now, so I can be sure to never be so rude as to describe someone as being black with the fair knowledge that they have never been to or even seen Africa.

It really bugs me when I use the descriptive term "black" with a human being in question, and a whole bunch of people chime in YOU MEAN AFRICAN-AMERICAN. (none of whom fit the description, by the way)

Henceforth, I forbid any of you to ever call me Chinese or Asian. I must always be Asian-American, even though I have never set foot on Asian soil in my life, nor have my parents.

[Aisha379]

I guess that makes me...uh...eastern-german-irelandian-soviet-american.


I agree though. Its stupid.

[Xaeris]

I'm not even from Africa. I'm from the Caribbean. I actually feel the urge to /facepalm a little bit when people call me African-American when, it's inaccurate, and 'black' would be so many less syllables.

[unicorn]

No one will care if you call them black. Lol.

[Aisha379]

No one will care if you call them black. Lol.

Sadly untrue. While rare, there are a few jerks that take it as an offensive term D=

[CelestialBlade]

Be honest. Call them brown.

[Kylie]

Be honest. Call them brown.

XD

But yeah, I'd rather save the offense for the intention behind the words and not just the words.

[Toadthroat]

No, I'm black.

[Leviathan]

Nigerian-American.
Puerto Rican-American.
Spanish-American.

&That's about it I think...

My dad is from Africa.
Mum is from Puerto Rico.
From her mom's side she came from Spain.
&Then I might be some other stuff too.

[Vanzazikon]

I usually refer myself as a Cambodian or Cambodian-American. People don't usually call me asian anyway so it seems weird for me to call myself asian-american. I have some african-american friends and they don't mind if I refer them as black. They usually don't call me "that asian guy" when describing me to another person. I don't know... where I'm from, being Cambodian is much more different than being another asian ethnicity according to them. I guess its the way I look.