Why are black people, called African American? Options

[Kontroll]

I never really liked the term African American, first of all because its just an easy way out instead of calling a person black. Because saying some one is black is closely related to racism, some how.

Technically all people who come from Africa aren't black. If you're Egyptian and you live in America, what are you?

Another problem is that if you're born in the US and you're black, then you're not at all African American. That term only denotes that you previously resided in Africa and moved to the US.

Please discuss to further my knowledge and understanding. Thank you. Oh, and if there is already a topic about this, then close this one. Thank you.

[*Frénésie*]

Probably because majority, if not all black people came from Africa. In my opinion, an Egyptian would be called "African American" because he / she is from Africa. African doesn't mean black.

I live in Europe but I've never been called an "African European". I'm European and it ends there.
Although, I don't get why nobody says "White American". Only the minorities have their race attached to 'American'. Ironic.

Anyway, yes, there is the human race BUT in the human race, there are also different races. If you get what I mean. We aren't the same. We've got different cultures, and many more.
I don't think identifying someone by his / her race should be considered as racism.

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Anyway, yes, there is the human race BUT in the human race, there are also different races. If you get what I mean. We aren't the same. We've got different cultures, and many more.
I don't think identifying someone by his / her race should be considered as racism.

The difference remains in whether you use the term race as a scientific concept, or else as a way to define a social group that share X number of exclusive characteristics.

Scientists have been abandoning the idea of biologically distinct races amongst humans since the early years of the XXth century, and talk about the black/asian/etc.., population and/or cline. Presently, the concept of races within the human specie has more to do with cultural studies than with scientific evidence.