<p>As far as I’m concerned the OP is African American. He/she was born in the US his/her parents are from Eritrea which is in Africa. The whole Eritrean American could be used but in general African American is the box you would check. Yes there is a difference between AA’s of recent ancestry and AA’s whose ancestors were slave’s, but we are all African Americans. I’m technically a Cameroonian American but I don’t go around calling myself that cuz 1) some people in my town can’t spot it on a map LOL 2) Cameroon is in Africa, I was born here in the US, therefore making me African American. I could expand on this but I have no time:/ gotta get ready for college :)</p>