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To: Alex Molnar who wrote (8121)	10/8/1999 2:08:00 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81050

Thanks Alex. I'm blushing. Recently white Africans refer to themselves as Africans and are usually accepted, by black Africans, as such. If, however, I was to come to the US and tell an African-American that I was also an African he wouldn't believe me. In the old days whites would never call themselves Africans --- they were always Europeans --- and proud of it. Asians eg Chinese, in Africa, still refer to themselves as Asians or Chinese. Indians refer to themselves either as Asians or blacks. They don't call themselves Africans. As you say it's all about political correctness but it's also about opportunism --- how various groups perceive an advantage in a name. Today it suits the whites to refer to themselves as Africans because they feel if they call themselves Africans it prevents the blacks from obtaining an advantage. That's why the blacks in South Africa now refer to themselves as "the previously disadvantaged" or "the oppressed" etc. Politically, to the blacks, the whites are always the oppressor or members of the apartheid regime etc. The ANC keeps the racial fires burning all the time. No white is allowed to forget what his group has done in the past.