Describe The Difference Between Black And African Americans
The reading about the indigenous people thought me how labels are used as an excuse to mistreat people. As the reading explain the term indigenous was only created to dehumanized and the over the land. Because the natives from American were not Christians they were not considered real people and with the help of the Pope, the European nations took over the land regardless that there were people already leaving there. It’s also interesting to see the used of indigenous as a nations, state or peoples. They should be able to represent themselves and their tribes and identify themselves with what it’s most convenient and useful for them. They need to be protected and be able to maintain their cultural identities.
It seems like the difference between Black and African-American is that the first one was used more in political settings where they thought there was a need to separate or divide people by their skin color while African-American was used by people who still identify themselves with African, Still both terms were created to alienate one group from the other. As the reading explains the term black “Maintained that physical differences between the races account for social and …show more content…
Although I know how one term is different from the other, Latinos are people who come from Latin American, this would exclude Spain and Hispanic are people who speak Spanish, this would exclude Brazil but include Spain. Yet when I talk about myself I usually identify myself as Latina mainly because both of this labels come with different stereotypes. Latinos are seen as friendly, outgoing group of people while the term Hispanic is used to separate one group from another and it’s the label most politicians used when they mention negative and false stereotypes against us. It sad to see how people can use labels to feel superior to other groups of people just because of a few
It seems like the difference between Black and African-American is that the first one was used more in political settings where they thought there was a need to separate or divide people by their skin color while African-American was used by people who still identify themselves with African, Still both terms were created to alienate one group from the other. As the reading explains the term black “Maintained that physical differences between the races account for social and …show more content…
Although I know how one term is different from the other, Latinos are people who come from Latin American, this would exclude Spain and Hispanic are people who speak Spanish, this would exclude Brazil but include Spain. Yet when I talk about myself I usually identify myself as Latina mainly because both of this labels come with different stereotypes. Latinos are seen as friendly, outgoing group of people while the term Hispanic is used to separate one group from another and it’s the label most politicians used when they mention negative and false stereotypes against us. It sad to see how people can use labels to feel superior to other groups of people just because of a few