Red Okktober wrote:Raggamuffin wrote:Exactly. I think that some black Americans don't like being referred to as "African" on the grounds that they've never been to Africa. African isn't a race.
African American is one of the 5 racial types on the US census form
Those forms are an illustration of how limiting tickboxes can be.
Back when then said White British/Irish I would always tick Other and put Irish as I knew British/Irish was a device used in the company I was working for as a way to cover up some pretty blatant anti-Irish discrimination.