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Originally posted by PrinceMichaelFan
I want to do all of you especially the black guys. give me y'all numbers
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I'm a girl.
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Black and African American are often used interchangeably which confuses a lot of people when you move on to discussions involving people that are of African descent in general and not just in the US. Speaking of Black
Americans that most definitely is its own ethnic grouping in the sense of common culture and shared experiences that are largely defined by race as race is hugely definitive in the US social structure -- that's why I listed Black and then African American for clarification. The waters are definitely muddied when talking about ethnicity and race or ethnicity vs. race when looking at it from an international perspective.
Like for instance with most Black Hispanics the ethnicity/cultural grouping supersedes race whereas with African Americans, the race IS also defining of the cultural grouping because of the way social structures work here. Which in turn leads to these hair splitting conversations about what does and doesn't define ethnicity when really the things that historically have come to define one's ethnicity are different in each country. Race vs. nationality vs. ethnicity vs. heritage/ancestry is always so messy because of how different all these are perceived by different groups and which things are more important to which groups.