Laura and lloyd wrote:
In other categories, large numbers choose to say they are Americans,
rather than identify a specific cultural or national background.
I do too, since I was born here and so were both my parents. It's only
in these last 20 years or so that I've found that half my responses
result from coming from an Irish background, my four grandparents being
immigrants. Notions of humor, love of the spoken and printed word, some
kinds of nastiness uniquely Irish, etc. etc.
Assuredly there are differences in culture between Jamaican heritage
(Gen Colin L. Powell) and African American (north or south? east or
west?). However, I've not heard it said that General Powell is not
African American. Both he and CM Samuels had Jamaican parents (from
whence our culture comes). Nor have I heard that about Louis
Farrakhan, whose cultural background is the British Caribbean (St.
Kitts).
Well, then, I was mistaken. I thought Mr. Samuels was born and raised on
(in?) Jamaica.
WizardMarks, Central
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