On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 14:47, Milos Rancic millosh@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.