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KunoichiNindroid 
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Posted: Jan 28 2013 at 7:08am |
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...rather than saying African hair? Whenever I'm looking for articles, rather than African hair I always get topics talking about African-American hair. And on google it always auto-completes things to say African-American hair. If I moved to America would my hair suddenly become African-American hair? And what about Africans living in other parts of the world. Would you say they have African-British hair, African-Bulgarian hair or African-Argentinean hair? Sigh. Why do we have to make things so difficult.
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Posted: Jan 28 2013 at 8:35am |
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It is likely that most of the articles you are reading are American in origin, so that is their focus.
That being said, I was quite salty when I heard Naomi Campbell being referred to as African American... I mean the chick is British...., you can't be referring to allllllllll Black people as African American...
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Posted: Jan 28 2013 at 8:36am |
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Now you know there aint no Black folk in Bulgaria
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Posted: Jan 28 2013 at 8:39am |
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Why dont they just say kinky hair?
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Posted: Jan 28 2013 at 8:41am |
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Why dont they just say kinky hair? |
ETA: AAs don't all have the same hair type
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Posted: Jan 28 2013 at 9:10am |
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yep...
if they were more enlightened they could use the terms/categories: straight hair, loose curls, or tight coils..
unfortunately, they are speaking as if they "behind closed doors".. or as a "generalization"..
I was dismayed when a forum member vehemently defined the hispanics at her work place by saying: "i've never heard them say the word "nappy" or "kinky" when they were around me."
Well the key phrase, dear is "When they're around me"..
Many a culture, especially here in the U.S. refer to hair on any person of african descent head as just one grade.
Little do they know, we all come from africa..
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Posted: Jan 28 2013 at 11:23am |
Naturalchick30 wrote:
Why dont they just say kinky hair? |
Kinky hair just means hair with kinks. Straight hair can be kinky too.
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Posted: Jan 28 2013 at 11:30am |
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Funny enough. I've never actually seen anyone referring to their own hair as African-American hair on a black hair forum.
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Posted: Jan 28 2013 at 12:07pm |
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you know, that's why i was so hesitant to buy "black hair." i'm like, what exactly is "black" hair? that is such a wiiiiiiide spectrum.
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Posted: Jan 28 2013 at 6:56pm |
KunoichiNindroid wrote:
...rather than saying African hair? Whenever I'm looking for articles, rather than African hair I always get topics talking about African-American hair. And on google it always auto-completes things to say African-American hair. If I moved to America would my hair suddenly become African-American hair? And what about Africans living in other parts of the world. Would you say they have African-British hair, African-Bulgarian hair or African-Argentinean hair? Sigh. Why do we have to make things so difficult.
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Most of the purchasing power are done by African-Americans or Black Americans if you wanna go down that route. This is based off of my assumption. Nothing more.
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