Hiya Azizi!

'I'm curious as to how Africans in Canada and in the UK refer to themselves and how others refer to them.'


I've lazily not waded through all the posts in this thread but if not already mentioned, I feel there's a number of issues connected with 'people labelling'.

I feel it's unusual that of all the places in the world, its predominantly in USA where these terms of 'some origin - American' are used.

In Britain I've never heard folk referred to as 'French- British' etc
but on lots of official forms, such as census, job applications, they often ask ethnic origin questions & terms such as 'British English' , 'British Irish' are used.

Also ask to state racial origins 'white caucasian', 'caribbean' & so on.


A conclusion I draw from this categorisation of people, mainly by governments, is its another method of control & manipulation of populations of 'Citizens of the World' by imposing these labels upon them,& cleverly & cynically persuading them that its pc.

Wot u think?