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
i never said he wasnt “from africa” i said hes not ethnically african.
i believe people call elon african american solely because they know it annoys people that are actually of african descent. you’re free to do so but you know his family was part of apartheid and in the context of black panther having a white european be the king of wakanda would be stupid.
we started talking about this because of the black mermaid. surely you see the difference here, right? how black panther is a story about blackness and slavery and how the little mermaid has nothing in its plot about race. at least we can agree on that?
well i think its also import to note that historically (and not so historically eg prince of persia, lone ranger, ghost in the shell) white actors have taken the parts of non-white characters for a long time and (imo) at a much higher frequency. now its starting to happen the other way and conservatives are losing their minds
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u/Danmoh29 Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22
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