I guess I am a racist. I am sorry!

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Mr Khan said:

HesAPooka said:
Are black people in different countries called African *insert country name*. Also, do black people really prefer to be called "african american", or do they not care if you just say black. Maybe I'm not right in the head but to me it's almost more racist when people say "african american" because it's like they're going out of their way to not sound racist which in turn makes them more racist. When I played soccer on all black teams, or all brown teams I don't care if they call me white boy. I certainly wouldn't expect them to go out of their way to say "the canadian from romania".

Usually they are only called African-American if they are of American slave descent. Black people from, say, Haiti will want to be called Haitian Americans (which is why "American Slave" is the qualifier, as most Caribbean blacks are slave-descended too), or if they're from Africa, called Nigerian-American, Eritrean-American, etc. Since slave ancestry is so far back, its likely to be too mixed to sift out an individual African legacy, or even more simply the slavers didn't really keep records of where the slaves were acquired (though American slaves were usually from somewhere between Gabon and Guinea)

I'm Nigerian and this is my first time of hearing the phrase "Nigerian-American". I live in Nigeria, but I've got 3 uncles (thus lots of cousins) living in England and I visit them every other year. Anyway, as someone else said, unless you suggested that your race was somehow superior to theirs, you didn't act racist. Definitely stereotyped them though. I think there's a thin line between racism and stereotyping.