On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 14:47, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Although the most of participants in this discussion understood me > well, I want to be clear: I am talking about the specific 30M+ big > ethnic group living in US, which is named today as "African Americans" > and which ancestors came there as slaves. I am not talking about the > the second generation immigrants from, let's say, Nigeria, which would > say for themselves that they belong to, for example, Yoruba people. > The second group is much more like any second generation immigrants. > So, obviously, there are two types of African Americans and I am > referring to one particular group. And Obama doesn't belong to the > first one in the same way as, for example, Manute Bol didn't. It is > not because of the characteristics of their skin or lashes, but > because of their distinct cultural backgrounds.
As it is pointed to me privately, I have one corrections and one clarifications: * First, my impression wasn't that Obama was raised inside of the African American culture (first meaning). However, it is pointed to me that he was; which means that I was wrong in relation to his cultural background. * Second, it is obviously not clear that inside of the construction "which ancestors came there as slaves" I was referring to the culture developed by slaves and their descendants , not to the genes. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l