Do The Black Folks In Canada Prefer To Be Called African-Canadians?

[arwalden]

Do folks in the UK use the phrase African-Brit? Or is hyphenating one's nationality with one's ethnic heritage strictly an American thing?

Don't laugh! I'm serious... I want to know.

-- Allen

[kick-ass-bob]

1. well, I do know that the "black non-African lineage" humans

don't like the African-American moniker.

[xultar]

2. True. I ain't from Africa.

[tjdee]

10. Me either! I'm from New Jersey.

:silly:

[Shell Beau]

13. Really, people don't call me

English, Dutch, Irish, Native-American.

[spinbaby]

3. Ahem...

Last time I looked, Canada was part of North America.

[xultar]

5. Buhwawawa! Brilliant!

[arwalden]

7. But Nobody Says "African-North-American"....

... at least nobody I know says that.

[calico1]

11. True. I don't think Canadians ever refer to themselves as

North Americans and certainly not as Americans.

[lpbk2713]

18. Me .... I'm South American

[wryter2000]

4. One thing we need to remember

The X-American thing wasn't inserted to add the X. Back in the bad old days, we called people Mexican and Italian and Chinese, etc. They added American, as in "I'm an American." Given that, X-American doesn't seem so odd.

[xultar]

6. Lets ask Chinese-Canadians

[ComerPerro]

8. North America

so, maybe?

[tjwmason]

9. Not in Britain.

A somewhat dopey (i.m.o.) government minister suggested that we should start to refer to our minority communities in this manner - and was widely ridiculed for it.

Black is by far the most common term used in Britain - and does not posses any racist stigma at all. A few older folk still say coloured, mainly out of ignorance in my experience. Occasionally Afro-Carribean is used (most blacks here having arrived from British colonies and ex-colonies in the Carribean).

Perhaps the biggest immigrant communities are from the Indian sub-continent. Where these are referred to, it is most normal that they are just called by the country of ethnic origin (Pakistani, Bangladeshi &c.) - it was a notable point after the London bombings that the term British was added, this was simply to aid clarity (the guys concerned were as British as I am).

[tjdee]

12. Eww. And I hate "black" too.

I mean, I'm brown, not black. That has always seemed icky to me.

I use either term, because I don't care that much, but both terms are stupid.

[Chovexani]

14. Hmm I dunno

I think African-American is stupid. I call myself black. I'm not from Africa, I'm from Brooklyn. :P

[liontamer]

19. i say black and I really am from africa eom

[WeRQ4U]

15. Honestly, I think they say "Afronadian".

And in England, I think "Eurican".

[underpants]

16. I thought they are called Bill or Tom or Suzie

:bounce:

[XNASA]

17. They're called "Afrohosers".

[WeRQ4U]

21. LOL. "Take off eh"

[sasquatch]

22. .

:spray:

[flamingyouth]

20. My former sister-in-law calls herself "black"

She's Canadian of African descent, btw. And I asked her the same question you're asking here. :)