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> >|>  themselves African-Americans, they are implying a desire to 
> >|>  promote a different culture.
> >|>  
> >|>  js
> >They can call themselves anything they like and i for 
> >one will respect their contribution to MY culture.
> >
> >Yes, Schmidling, you filthy racist, African Americans
> >are just as American as you are.  In fact, you 
> >have shown you do not understand the basic principles that 
> >the United States depends upon. I for one am ashamed that
> >you exist to shame the name of my great country.
> 
> I don't know where to begin editing this rubbish so I left in in tact.
> 
> All I said was the African Americans are (by definition) promoting African
> culture.  Everything you said in response is nothing by hateful rubbish
> because you can't think of anything objective to say about what is 
> a given and are to stupid to keep your mouth shut.

Well I do not think that because certain people wished to be called 
African-Americans, that they are expressing a desire to promote an 
African culture.  I think it has been said repeatadly, to the point of 
cliche, that America has no excat defined culture, but is the culmination 
of several cultures around the world.  It has also been said recently 
that groups should maintain a certain level of cultural identity when 
assimlating to America, because it is important to know what one's 
ancestors did.  The term African-American is mostly in response to the 
somewhat negative connotation of the word 'black.'  Anyway, it is more 
specific in some ways, but wrong in others, but I see how one could be 
upset by a label.  If one refers to me as an 'Anglo-Saxon' they are very 
wrong, I do not care very much however.  Anyway, my point is that the 
term has very little to do with promoting a pure African culture(which is 
also difficult to define) as it is a title promoting knowledge of 
ancestors.

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