Mixed race...

Because African-American is generally used to denote people with heritage quite unlike Obama's. I also dislike the use of a term joining a country to a continent - you wouldn't call someone with an English mother and American father 'European-American,' you'd call them 'English-American.'

No you wouldn't. You'd call them American.

Nope.

Because African-American is generally used to denote people with heritage quite unlike Obama's. I also dislike the use of a term joining a country to a continent.

What are you talking about. The term English-American is practically never used.

Tell me what you mean when you say half caste?
You mean when Tchaikovsky mix the black key and the white key is a half caste symphony?


Sorry, couldn't help myself

I think It makes more sense to call people who have origins in African, African-American after all It have been done for centuries and by millions around the world. As you know there are 54 countries in Africa an don't you think It is easier to identify someone by the continent and not by each individual country in Africa.

And the term African-American is often incorrectly used.

I'm mixed-race myself and include both parts of my heritage when saying what I am, I wouldn't do someone else the disrespect of completely ignoring one half of their make-up.

African-American = an American of African decent.

You are saying that it means someone descended from slaves? Sorry, that's not what it means - it is what it is commonly perceived to mean.

Irrelevant anyway, even it it was misused you cant just say that people of english decent are referred to as English-Americans...because they aren't white american citizens are referred to simply as Americans.

Because African-American is generally used to denote people with heritage quite unlike Obama's.

I also dislike the use of a term joining a country to a continent - you wouldn't call someone with an English mother and American father 'European-American,' you'd call them 'English-American.'

It's disrespectful and it's plain stupid

'An American of African descent' denotes a different heritage to someone who has one American parent and one Kenyan parent. 'African-American' is not used to describe people of mixed race.

because they aren't white american citizens are referred to simply as Americans.

Sorry but he is an African-American.

This is complete nonsense my grand father is from Africa and would refer himself as African and not Nigerian, an would never think of someone being disrespectful if they called him African

Oh I'm sorry if I and the millions of people around the do not refer to Americans with African heritage as Kenyan-American, Algeria-American, Swaziland-American etc, I suppose millions of us are all stupid.

Um you clearly have not experienced thousands of Americans insisted to you that they're:
Irish-American ("My great great Grandpa was from County Limerick."... nevermind the fact that the rest is German and English )
Italian-American
Polish-American
Russian-American
Spanish-American
Although the core of white Americans are of British, Irish and German descent, they all love to find some ancestor that makes them a bit "exotic".

You're right, technically he is.

But he does have a very different culture, history and background to pretty much all other African-Americans. African-Americans don't identity themselves only through their skin colour but also through their culture and history. You will even find certain African-Americans in the South who accept that a white person can embrace African-American culture. It's not all about the skin colour/ethnicity.

Show me a English person who would refer to themselves as 'European' instead of English. Would anyone? No. And should they? No.

People should refer to themselves by where they actually come from, not dumb it down because the vast majority of people are too stupid to understand Africa is not a country.

What do you mean by talking/ acting black?

What's your point?

He is an African-American, stop denying it.