Is my childhood friend's baby an African-American?

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No, because white people from Africa are not African, they're Europeans who settled in Africa (or had ancestors that did). So, she'll be Dutch-American or some such.

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No, because white people from Africa are not African, they're Europeans who settled in Africa (or had ancestors that did). So, she'll be Dutch-American or some such.

It's like calling Canadians "British".

I don't see the problem here, most Canadians are of British descent. Although I'd prefer to be more specific such as saying "English" or "Scottish", just like I'd prefer those of African descent to use a tribal or national qualifier (and not something made up by westerners such as the Tutsis and Hutus.

Although, I suppose a case could be said that the Afrikaaners have been in South Africa long enough to qualify as their own ethnic group. But, that doesn't make them "African". African is a code word for Black, just like European is code word for white. It may not be politically (or even very accurate) correct, but that's the way it is in language. 

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No, because white people from Africa are not African, they're Europeans who settled in Africa (or had ancestors that did). So, she'll be Dutch-American or some such.

It's like calling Canadians "British".

I don't see the problem here, most Canadians are of British descent. Although I'd prefer to be more specific such as saying "English" or "Scottish", just like I'd prefer those of African descent to use a tribal or national qualifier (and not something made up by westerners such as the Tutsis and Hutus.

Although, I suppose a case could be said that the Afrikaaners have been in South Africa long enough to qualify as their own ethnic group. But, that doesn't make them "African". African is a code word for Black, just like European is code word for white. It may not be politically (or even very accurate) correct, but that's the way it is in language. 

But Canadians are not British. They're Canadian.

By nationality, not by ethnicity (not necessarily, anyways... I suppose some of us have had ancestry here long enough to be considered "ethnically Canadian", whatever that means)

No, because white people from Africa are not African, they're Europeans who settled in Africa (or had ancestors that did). So, she'll be Dutch-American or some such.

It's like calling Canadians "British".

I don't see the problem here, most Canadians are of British descent.

The Quebecois people would say they aren't happy of that sentence.

I said most. I think we can agree that Quebecois are not most Canadians. To be more accurate, Canada is a nation of nations, with many different ethnic groups, the main ones being English, Irish, Scottish, French and Aboriginal.

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Are Acadians considered Quebécois?

No!

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Are Acadians considered Quebécois?

No!

Then most of things said about Canadians in this thread aren't valid...

I do not follow. Acadians and Quebecois are very ethnically similar. Quebecois is more of a political label anyways, I prefer to refer to them as French Quebecker (or Franco-Quebecois if you will).