Valafor Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 (edited) A bit random I know, but I always felt the term "African-American" is actually very politically incorrect. I mean, the term would suggest that every black person in America is either A. From Africa or B. Even American. What about the people from the Caribbeans? Should Haitians be considered "African-American", or Dominicans be considered "African-Americans"? And I don't think "All black people in the Caribbeans originally dissented from Africa" is a fair excuse either. By that logic, all "purely" Americans would be considered British, or ALL Americans would be considered "African-Americans" since humanity began in Africa and would later spread out across the world. In all honesty, the term "black people" seems more politically correct, since not all blacks are even from Africa. but still considers people from elsewhere. It would be as fair calling all white people "Europeans" or "Americans" or "Canadians". Edited January 10, 2015 by Valafor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Institute-Marksman Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 How about we call them 'people', and then we also call us 'people'. No stupid naming bullS#&$. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazemate Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 (edited) Well, you will never find a word to satisfy everyone. But yeah, "black" sounds the most politically correct imho. But as the user above said, we should all call each other people. Edited January 10, 2015 by Blazemate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zergla Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 (edited) Why can't we call every individual of every species "earthlings" instead? Edited January 10, 2015 by zergla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
011100110110000101101101 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 How about we get rid of this politically correct stuff altogether. Makes everything less efficient, and is annoying to deal with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bejuizb Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 How about we call them 'people', and then we also call us 'people'. No stupid naming bullS#&$. Amen to that. I hate being called brown personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valafor Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 How about we call them 'people', and then we also call us 'people'. No stupid naming bullS#&$. So what, I can no longer identify myself as an American? I have to say I am a person? There is nothing wrong with grouping people together, in fact we do it all the time. We have families, friends, groups, clubs, guilds, parties, countries, and even organizations that transcend countries. However, there is something wrong when you group people and then think you're better than them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahadaya Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 "Black" is better, you're right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noveltyhero Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I call people people, to describe them you can call them asian, indian, white, black etc. without problem...I never understood the reason for political correctness overall, just say what people are if you want to describe them. No need to act like a #$&(% about it :/ ^not directed at OP or anybody here by the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xRufus7x Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Why can't we call every individual of every species "earthlings" instead? I always liked the term terrans myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bejuizb Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 So what, I can no longer identify myself as an American? I have to say I am a person? There is nothing wrong with grouping people together, in fact we do it all the time. We have families, friends, groups, clubs, guilds, parties, countries, and even organizations that transcend countries. However, there is something wrong when you group people and then think you're better than them. It's about the connotation of the word more than the grouping. Calling someone brown or black after generations of harsh treatment towards said skinned people does tend to stick around, intentionally or not. I've personally only experienced the negative aspects of being "non white", so I suppose there is a significant bit of bias on my end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OniDax Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 (edited) We black people just say black, and the ones who want to be more "distinguished" say African-American. For me, well, I'm a black guy who is American. It doesn't have to be something negative unless someone makes it negative. But saying black, or African-American, isn't politically correct, it's just a label that black people in America use to self-identify. Again, when black people use the term 'black' or 'African-American' ourselves, it's no longer something negative. It certainly has been used in a negative connotation, but brown, yellow, red, AND white have also been used in negative connotations (I've seen racism from both 'blacks' and 'whites'). My only thing is this: if we want to continue to be called African-American, then fine. But we shouldn't pretend like it's some politically correct statement or even some racist statement (I've heard some fellow black people say that African-American is racist because it means we're separate from America) because, well, we use the term ourselves. Edited January 10, 2015 by AntoineFlemming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b2bomber13 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 A bit random I know, but I always felt the term "African-American" is actually very politically incorrect. I mean, the term would suggest that every black person in America is either A. From Africa or B. Even American. What about the people from the Caribbeans? Should Haitians be considered "African-American", or Dominicans be considered "African-Americans"? And I don't think "All black people in the Caribbeans originally dissented from Africa" is a fair excuse either. By that logic, all "purely" Americans would be considered British, or ALL Americans would be considered "African-Americans" since humanity began in Africa and would later spread out across the world. In all honesty, the term "black people" seems more politically correct, since not all blacks are even from Africa. but still considers people from elsewhere. It would be as fair calling all white people "Europeans" or "Americans" or "Canadians". I have one question: of all places to put this, you put this on the Warframe forums? Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
011100110110000101101101 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I have one question: of all places to put this, you put this on the Warframe forums? Lol. It's Off Topic. Literally anything that doesn't break forum rules can go there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rexlars Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Yes, Black is the most "politically correct" term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omekah Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 (edited) I see a little bit of Tumblr is seeping its way into the Warframe forums. Shouldn't we be talking about games and such on here? Edited January 10, 2015 by DarkOmega6719 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snydrex Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I see a little bit of Tumblr is seeping its way into the Warframe forums. Shouldn't we be talking about games and such on here? It's an epidemic. We need to kill it before it spreads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrinityPrime Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 African-American does sound patronizing but does context matter? Like say you got a white dude Caucasian male news reporter who reads a line about a news incident: 'involved two black men exiting' vs 'involved two african-american males exiting' Or if it was a Black news reporter: 'involed two white men exiting' vs 'involved two caucasian males exiting' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwelfthAngel Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Hi "Black" guy here. Born and raised in the good old U.S.A I would prefer the word African American. Thank you bye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeys9ab Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Hi "Black" guy here. Born and raised in the good old U.S.A I would prefer the word African American. Thank you bye. I don't believe you :^) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragemonkey83 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 (edited) Science has us all as coming from Africa, one small area in fact, then spreading out over the globe. And the changes in skin colour seem to originate in areas of climate change and areas of great change conditions. So in short we are all the same original people at base, That being said we are different, due to thousands of years of evolution. Things such as "black" people have different muscle fibers that allow them greater efficiency at running and jumping, highly likely that this is why we see them as the majority of start players in things like basketball. That being said, difference is good, it allows humanity to be stronger, it should be embraced and the crying and stupidity about the exact wording of how one is identified should be buried and forgotten. Lets face it, I am called "white", yet I look at my skin and compare it to a colour chart and I am far, far from white. The colour identification is a short hand way to identify a person who at this point in the evolutionary process is different to another based on skin pigmentation, nothing more, so please stop demonizing it, it's neither bad nor good but simply is. Edited January 10, 2015 by Ragemonkey83 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rexlars Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 demonizing it AFAIK, at no point in this thread did this happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zergla Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 I always liked the term terrans myself. Yeah, it does sound a bit more badass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagPrime Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 From an equality standpoint, I agree with the people comment. From a professional stand point, where I have to give physical descriptions to authorities? Ehhh... "They looked like a fe/male Person, wearing blue jeans, brown shirt and black shoes" doesn't work so well. : / Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragemonkey83 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 AFAIK, at no point in this thread did this happen. was not meaning the post but in general , no matter what classification or discription u use u will be wrong in the real world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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