Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> 	Eh? Not over here. I occasionally hear someone claiming someone else is
> an African American, when he's purely African. I correct, and no one
> thinks my correction to be strange.
> 
>>   Even more jarring is that it's also used for dark-skinned people who
>> are neither African nor American. (Many people in the Pacific islands or
>> south Asia, for example, could very well pass for Africans, even though
>> they aren't.)
> 
> 	I personally have never heard someone from South Asia be called
> African, unless it is purely by mistake. Nor have the complained to me
> about it. Officially, people from South Asia are classified as Asians in
> this country, regardless of skin color.

You live in SA, don't you?  It must be nice to live in a civilized country.

People in the US are incredibly idiotic when it comes to race.

-- 
Chambers

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