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Originally posted by Doc
If African-American is ignorant, then so it Italian-American, Mexican-American, Chinese-American, etc...
And none of those seem inherently ignorant to me. ![Bibliotheque](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/biblio_zps23dff242.gif)
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To answer your question, yes and no. It depends on the person and their relationship to their claimed parent ancestry. For example, someone who grew up in little Italy in ny city, speaking Italian, and raised in a family heavily steeped in Italian culture, I see no problem referring to them as Italian American.
On the other hand, there's people like Jessica Alba who are descendants of foreigners (Mexican, in her case) where the culture and customs have been lost and the person or persons completely assimilated in "american" culture. In that case it would be ignorant to refer to them as "Mexican American", as you would only be doing so based on their phenotype, and we all know that Mexico is a country, not a "look".
Needless to say, black Americans today are completely removed from any African culture and therefore it's ignorant to imply any connection, hence black being the obvious choice of description.