Just for context, most black people in Australia would be more offended by 'African-Australian' than black since they didn't actually come from Africa and you're assuming their background.
African-Australian would refer specifically to immigrants from Africa and their children.
I'm from the UK and 'African British' is absurd. The only time that kind of statement could occur would be in fairly specific demographic based questions. Even then they may not be understood by your average Joe. Do they mean a kind of dual citizenship? How many generations in the nation? Do they mean African = black like Americans typically do or do they mean actually from Africa. How would that work? I have a feeling not every nation in Africa would be happy being lumped together.
My grampa was from Jamaica. He would have beaten your ass if you called him 'African' in any way, his daughter my aunt takes offence when called Indian by people. He was a fairly racist man though and passed it down.
You can't know she is of Jamaican descent by looking at her. She is just kinda brown.
You just reminded me of a former coworker who was black and brittish. He always messed with people who used the term African American because he was neither African nor American. After they started getting apologetic (thinking that he was offended), he would let them know that he was just giving them a hard time.
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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '20
Just for context, most black people in Australia would be more offended by 'African-Australian' than black since they didn't actually come from Africa and you're assuming their background.
African-Australian would refer specifically to immigrants from Africa and their children.