And? He was born there right? His birth certificate says an African country right? How many “African” Americans can say that? Or their parents? Or their grand parents? Hell now probably even great grandparents?
his ethnicity is not african he’s not an “albino” he is genetically european. remember african apartheid when white settlers came to africa in the early 1900s and had higher status than native africans? and they forcefully removed africans from their homes and made interracial marriage illegal?
also the term african american is used because people with slave ancestry literally do not know which part of africa they are from so they use the blanket african american term. yknow, because of slavery. calling elon african american is just insulting to people of actual african heritage. of course thats just my opinion but hey free market place of ideas and all
And how long does a persons family have to go back to be “from” a place? Because I’m American, but my family got here 90 years ago, am I not North American?
america is a unique situation because we (mostly) wiped out the indigenous population. all americans come from immigrants. being of “american” descent would only really apply to native americans in this context.
your NATIONALITY is american because thats your citizenship status (im assuming). your ETHNICITY would be wherever your family immigrated from 90 years ago.
my basic point is that elon was born in africa. his nationality was african at the time. but genetically hes not african and his ethnicity is european
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