> "African-American" to mean black is also confusing. Is it okay to call black people in other countries black, then? How do you differentiate American-born blacks from, say, African-born blacks who move to America?
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I once knew a Jamaican lady who found the term "African-American" extremely offensive and insisted on being called "black." I think she'd even fill out "other" as her race instead of "African-American." It's like calling all Asians "Chinese-Americans." Come to think of it, why don't we stick the "-American" suffix on "Asian"? Isn't it the only ethnicity we don't do that with?

La"Redneck-American"Zorra