If African Americans face disparate treatment in America in general wouldn't that affect DU also?

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80. Agree

notably about what some folks overseas think of "Americans" and "American sub-groups". We often start off as "all" being dubbed as the blanket "American", but then shifts start to happen based on race, ethnicity, etc. I saw that in Egypt, although in one town, from a negative standpoint. Our large group of AAs (100 of us) were called the n-word by residents of one Nubian-ethnic town. The n-word was in essence associated with an "American of African descent" versus anyone of black African descent (like themselves, most of whom were darker in skin tone than any of us in our group). This odd occurrence is the result of a century of egregious brainwashing of stereotypes used to divide and conquer within the tourist industry of that country. From our perspective, we knew had any of them come to the U.S., they would immediately be dubbed the n-word themselves by the racists among the majority population here - at least until they "opened their mouth" and spoke with some sort of accent, which then immediately shifts them into a different category of the convoluted racial/ethnic hierarchy that has been put in place here by the PTB of the majority population. However this trip was pre-"Web" (1992), so since then, with a proliferation of internet social media, etc., the sentiment may have (hopefully) shifted.

Oddly, the same type of sentiment has been expressed by other groups in the African diaspora until recently - where American blacks were essentially separated from the rest of the diaspora and singled out for special denigration by those other diaspora groups (who were the majority population in their countries), in the same way that white Americans denigrated black Americans. The counter to this has been the "world tours" of many black American performing artists attempting to bridge some gap in perception (although sometimes also unfortunately reinforcing some of the very stereotypes we are trying to get rid of).

Within the African diaspora, the issues of ethnicity and ethnic identification are as strong as that within the European diaspora (those in Florida may see some of that played out between the Jamaicans and Haitians and even black Cubans in south Florida). This is why it is important to get ahead of the negative and damaging societal brainwashing and get people talking across these divides before minds are closed for good.