What Classifies African-American Ethnicity?

GMTplus7
Tue, 20 Oct 2015 04:57:45 +0000

I believe the term African-American relates to geography and culture, such as me for example my mother was born and raised in Africa, but my father in America.

Not… ALL the categories, except Hispanic/Latino, are purely racial categorizations, totally independent of geography or culture. A black person who is an Irish citizen and grew up in Indonesia is still black.

Hispanic/Latino is the totally arbitrary category. If u can cite 2 degrees of separation from ANYTHING remotely pertaining to the country of Spain, then u can claim being Hispanic/Latino, unless of course u are Filipino.

Hispanics are not of white ancestry…

Wrong. Hispanic can be ANY race, including white. There are even Japanese Peruvians.

Disadvantages have been experienced in people of color.

No again. It has nothing to do w disadvantage due to color. There are lots of northern Africans who are dark skinned but technically classified as white. They presumably add less diversity to the table thsn a student wbo ticks the Native American box but is only 1/32 Native American.

Don’t even try to make any sense of any of it. It is what it is.