"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:01:36 GMT, Graphic Queen wrote:
>
> > You mean the black guy? A person is either an American or an African.
> > They aren't both. Stop giving in to the hyphenated way of looking at
> > things and make people decided that they are American or not.
>
> A lot of people call themselves African-American... but they weren't
> born in Africa, nor were their parents or their parents parents.

Yeah. My grandparents were born in Italy and I refer to myself as Italian
American. Nobody has a problem with that.