Do people in other countries...

muy_thaiguy · Post by **muy_thaiguy** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:31 pm

that are of, say, a minority in regards to skin color and such, call themselves African-British, or Spanish-Italian? Or any other similar instances? I don't think I have ever heard it from anywhere else but here in the states.

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:35 pm

African and Asian British are used alot

Norse · Post by **Norse** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:35 pm

Not really.

If anyone is a minority in Britain, they either call themselves, for example, "British", "Black", "asian".

I suppose you could say that we are pretty black-and-white about ethnicity in this country.

Norse · Post by **Norse** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:36 pm

spinwizard wrote:African and Asian British are used alot

Never ever heard them terms.

Wisse · Post by **Wisse** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:41 pm

it is used but in an other way, example we don't say "i am asian-dutch" but we say "i am a dutch asian

browng-08 · Post by **browng-08** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:47 pm

Up here in Canada, we usually use african-american or black

Koesen · Post by **Koesen** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:49 pm

Wisse wrote:it is used but in an other way, example we don't say "i am asian-dutch" but we say "i am a dutch asian

That's pretty rare though. In the Netherlands, it's far more common to call people either Dutch (or nothing) or after whatever country their family came from.

I never heard anybody describe himself or be described by others as 'een Nederlandse Aziaat' (Dutch Asian).

soundout9 · Post by **soundout9** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:51 pm

In the USA i usually am discribed as a "cracker"

btownmeggy · Post by **btownmeggy** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:58 pm

Sometimes. In the multiethnic foreign countries I'm most familiar with, afro-brasileiro, afrocubano, and the like are commonly used. Brasilindio (for native peoples) is also pretty common.

However, I notice that Asians, sizeable minorities in these two countries, are usually just called chines or japones. Not chines-cubano or japones-brasileiro.

Snorri1234 · Post by **Snorri1234** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 3:04 pm

Koesen wrote:
Wisse wrote:it is used but in an other way, example we don't say "i am asian-dutch" but we say "i am a dutch asian
That's pretty rare though. In the Netherlands, it's far more common to call people either Dutch (or nothing) or after whatever country their family came from.

I never heard anybody describe himself or be described by others as 'een Nederlandse Aziaat' (Dutch Asian).

Me neither. All my asian friends call themselves chinese or wherever they're from.

Moghul · Post by **Moghul** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:32 pm

No such terms used in Denmark. In Britain, however, you can be a BBC - British born Chinese.

a-person1192 · Post by **a-person1192** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:42 pm

soundout9 wrote:In the USA i usually am discribed as a "cracker"

I'm a cracker too!

comic boy · Post by **comic boy** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:01 pm

spinwizard wrote:African and Asian British are used alot

Never heard either of them used, people will say they are British or, for example, Indian or Nigerian.

-ShadySoul- · Post by **-ShadySoul-** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:06 am

seeing as Canada is a very open country to immigration, then the people in here call them selfs the same way they called them selfs at home.

Guiscard · Post by **Guiscard** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:24 pm

Some people I know prefer use British-Asian as a term when they want to recognise both their Pakistani or Indian culture as well as their Britishness. One of my good friends doesn't like to refer to himself solely as Asian because he thinks people will place too much weight on his roots and not on his present situation. He once said something along the lines of 'if you tell some people you're asian they assume you've got six wives, but if you say your British they assum you've gone to law school... So best of both.'

muy_thaiguy · Post by **muy_thaiguy** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:29 pm

Guiscard wrote:Some people I know prefer use British-Asian as a term when they want to recognise both their Pakistani or Indian culture as well as their Britishness. One of my good friends doesn't like to refer to himself solely as Asian because he thinks people will place too much weight on his roots and not on his present situation. He once said something along the lines of 'if you tell some people you're asian they assume you've got six wives, but if you say your British they assum you've gone to law school... So best of both.'

So, 3 wives and a frat boy?