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.

[Kontroll]

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.

I don't know if you read my post earlier on in the discussion, but there is only one race. There are variations within a kind. Therefore you have whites, blacks, latin, asians, and whatnot. We aren't different races. Yes, we have different cultures but actually it is our cultures that make us different for the most part. THere is only a .012% difference between all humans. That's very small. The reason poeple look different is because of where they are from. If you breed one group of people with the same group of people, you therefore will get that group of people. Hence, why there is so much of a certain type of people.

We are all human, so that is a species, or race as we call it. There are just variations, that's all.

[*Frénésie*]

I don't know if you read my post earlier on in the discussion, but there is only one race. There are variations within a kind. Therefore you have whites, blacks, latin, asians, and whatnot. We aren't different races. Yes, we have different cultures but actually it is our cultures that make us different for the most part. THere is only a .012% difference between all humans. That's very small. The reason poeple look different is because of where they are from. If you breed one group of people with the same group of people, you therefore will get that group of people. Hence, why there is so much of a certain type of people.

We are all human, so that is a species, or race as we call it. There are just variations, that's all.

We are talking about the same thing, or almost. There is the human race, no doubt. But in the human race, there are variations, exactly like you said. 'Variation' is considered as another race within the human race. Jesus, I'm having an headache.
We are the same if you talk about us eating, drinking, farting, laughing and such. But our cultures, our lifestyle, our beliefs make us different from eachother. We are human, yes, but in a way, we are different. That's what makes the world what it is; diversity.

I find it to be ridiculous when people say: we're the same, we eat, fart and our blood is red. Seriously, that isn't all.

Let me put it this way; in the univers / whatever you want, there is only 1 HUMAN race. True. But within the human race, there are Blacks / Asians / Whites / many more. It's not a terrible thing, that's the way it is. There isn't only ONE race. I highly disagree with that.

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.

It's all about social, baby. I don't really care about scientists and their theories. Like you said;

Presently, the concept of races within the human specie has more to do with cultural studies than with scientific evidence