You know, they don't call black people 'African-American' in Europe... I don't know what the hell they do call them, but it would be pretty silly to address them as 'African-Americans' in Europe. Maybe they call them "African-Europeans" in Europe, and we in America decided that it sounded really cool and needed to adopt it. It's got all sorts of extra syllables and unnecessary complexity, almost as if political correctness itself birthed the term.

Also... couldn't African American go both ways? As in... African from America, or American from Africa? It's not terribly specific. For that matter, does it not negate itself? If something is African American, does it not cease to exist as both African and American and become something uniquely foreign?

Hopefully I am contributing something at least remotely acceptable to this topic and post. Whether I am or not, everybody who reads this comment can have a nice night... or day, depending on. Actually, no; you can only have a nice night. Take it or leave it.
 

Beetle,

Thank you very much for the plug! That's a good way to get yourself linked.

-Alex Marlow