What are "African-Americans" called in your country?

[Grant Hobba]

Bulgaria.

We use the N word. Which isn't offensive[footnote]The entire meaning is "person with black skin" nothing more. Nobody would even consider using it as an insult any more than "Italian".[/footnote] but thanks to American cinema, some people pretend they are smart-asses and say it is (also, said people are largely the ones that watch the most movies. Not politicians or anybody important.). So now, the term "black-skinned" is used slightly more.

There are offensive terms for, well, darker people but they mostly deal with gypsies.

If black people can call white people cracker and what not, like you say it is merely a reference on skin colour and nothing more and is no more offensive than naming their country.

OP I live in Sydney Australia and we just call them black.... just like white people are called white.

 

[OldNewNewOld]

We call them black people because they obviously are BLACK!

IMHO, Afro American is more racistic than black. Black shouldn't even be considered rasistic. I don't get offended when someone calls me white, man, male, tall, skinny, gamer... women don't get offended for called women. Gay don't get offended by calling them gay.

So why do black people get special treatment?

And as I said, it's worse to call them African american. They live in America, pay taxes, are part of the country, can give their lives for that country, jet they aren't real Americans? They are African Americans.

Another solution would be calling them colored, but IMHO, that is just plain retarded. Unless you're colorless, you are colored. Especially white people. We are born pink, grow old brownish, get dark on the sun, get white with the lack of sun... Black people stay always black.
And when you say colored, is he black, yellow, white...?

To be more precise, I don't call them anyway but by their name. I don't look at skin color, nor do I care about it. I don't look at nationality neither, but I know there is a difference.

The problem with today's society is that it tries to make everyone equal even tho we obviously aren't all equal. But acknowledge that difference doesn't meant accepting racism. We are all different, accept it. Don't get offended when someone says you are different, because you are different. Be proud of that difference. And you on the other side, you who tells people they are different, stop discriminating. We are different, but neither is worse.

 

[Chalacachaca]

Negro, mulato, negrito, mozambique, afro-descendiente, and some others I can't remember.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Wow. This seems more than a little sanctimonious. Of course if you know someone you call them by their name, and of course they're bloody people - you really think that's the point that's being discussed here? You're saying you've never referred to someone by a physical attribute?

Call it what you like, but referring to a group of people by attributes that they don't want to be used as a means of making them different than everyone else only perpetuates the problem.

I recon everyone in my generation uses black, as in 'that black guy over there'.

Your own words.

Tell me, why couldn't you have said 'that guy with the red jacket over there' or 'that guy wearing a hat over there'? Why did you immediately have to jump to skin tone? Is it just second nature to do that, regardless of how that person may feel about you doing it?

 

[HollaAtchABoi]

Holla ya boi is back

With a message to the haters

You can call black people black

But I like basketball players


-Holla

 

[Heinrich843]

Moors.

We all have a duty to defend Christendom from foreign religion and power. Arm thy selves.

 

[TheScientificIssole]

SPOOKS IS WHAT WE CALLS EM'! Yeah, the majority of people are Black or Mexican over here, so not really anything is constant.

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

I call them people. I call them men and women. I call them 'that guy' or 'that gal.' If I know them, I call them by their names.

Why? 'Cause I respect them the same as I respect anyone, and I find it to be unfair that it's socially-acceptable to address them based on physical attributes beyond gender.

I'm from the United States.

Wow. This seems more than a little sanctimonious. Of course if you know someone you call them by their name, and of course they're bloody people - you really think that's the point that's being discussed here? You're saying you've never referred to someone by a physical attribute?

I'm glad someone finally said it.

Jesus Christ, the number of holier-than-thou people in this thread is making me want to punch a baby.

You have to fill out surveys, official documents, and whatever all the time, and at least in the US, ethnicity is always one of them.

 

[Harlief]

In New Zealand we usually call them "mate", "bro" or by their name.

 

[CplDustov]

Scotland... I guess just black if you have to refer to someone in that way. It's more the tone and intention behind it than anything else... within reason. I don't think "******" would go down well.

 

[CleverCover]

I call us black people or Americans.

 

[Major_Tom]

"Crnac" (Black person), we have no fancy names for races.

 

[Icehearted]

Funny, I actually don't like African-American, and prefer simply being called black. As a black man it doesn't bother me being identified by my ethnicity. The whole African-American thing sound too much like I'm somehow less American, or not native to America because my ethnicity is now a pair of nationalities haphazardly cobbled together.

It's almost as offensive as "Ebonics".

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Black, what else can we say?

Me personally I don't even mention skin colour unless it's relevant, because I tend not to think about it.

Canadian

Canadian, or black I guess if I needed to get specific.

I frankly think PC terms are stupid, especially when it comes to race. All they do is re-enforce the idea that people of different skin color are different from us (Hint: they aren't)

They might not be, but most of the time they are. Example: East Asian folk have narrow eyes compared to pretty much every other race. I don't mean that in a derogatory way, just saying.

And it's not just physical differences, people of different countries often have different customs and social boundaries.

In fact I'm willing to say your statement is flat out wrong, of course there are differences, they don't bloody well matter of course, we are all human, but different none the less.

 

[Kinguendo]

Ireland: We just call them black.

We're too busy finding new and inventive ways to call each other offensive names to bother with foreigners.

You do know that there are black Irish people... right?

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Men and Women, why do people over complicate this?

-_-

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Actually, in the UK, we just call them "People".

Or "of Afro-Carribean descent", on the census form.

Yeah, but we also get thousands of people putting "Jedi" as their religion each year.

But I am Jedi...!

It's true though, we don't tend to have a term for coloured people in Britain, unless they are not British... and then we refer to them by their country of Origin... like you world refer to an Indian chap who runs the local take-away... or the Pakistani's that run the petrol station. Or the Polish guy who did my driveway!

 

[razer17]

Germany.
******.
Wish I was kidding.

Is that considered a polite term in Germany, or just one that is used a lot?

Well, you have ****** in the offensive sense which is used by the majority of young people and "neger" which is used by the older generation. That last one used to be offensive but the old folks round here still use the word with no ill intended.

I can't say I have ever really heard people use that. Mind you I haven't lived in Germany for a few years, but I know none of my German relatives use it.

If I was specifically trying to refer to someones skin colour, I'd say black. That's the PC term over here in the UK.

And to some people here: just having a term that describes a black person isn't somehow racist or propogating the difference between races. It's a simple descriptive most of the time.