Chicagogato wrote:Just like how Americans don't realise not all blacks are from Africa (I never understood why they call blacks "African Americans"), Khmer don't know their geography either. Be a positive influence though, educate those around you if you can, there's not much else you can do.
Because when Italians migrated to America they became Italian Americans. When a Polish family came they became Polish Americans. When African people were trafficked to the Americas they became Negros and eventually, through struggle, became proud of their Blackness. During that struggle it also became apparent that these so called black people should connect themselves to their cultural heritage which had been stripped away from them the moment they crawled out of the ships that brought them to their final destinations. Today many black people in the US identify as African American because there is no such place as Black Land or Negro Land.
You missed my point. Not all blacks are from or descended from Africa, practically speaking.