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What is the nationality of African Americans?

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I'm going to go for the obvious. The nationality of an American is American. An X American is an American of the kind X. read more

American. Nationality means what nation are you a citizen of. If you mean ethnicity, since African-Americans don't know what ethnic group their particular ancestors were from the term African is used since they were from Africa. When many Americans see a person of Asian decent they use Asian-American because the particular ethnicity isn't known. read more

Irish-American, Italian-American etc.. but know those terms (irish, italian etc) are not describing nationality, but ethnicity - a social group that shares the same cultural history/roots. The debate is long standing on whether African Americans should call themselves that because they lack a designated African country to link their roots and culture to. read more

People of European descent, or White Americans (also referred to as Caucasian Americans), constitute the majority of the 308 million people living in the United States, with 72.4% of the population in the 2010 United States Census. read more

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