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Just saying
It's the media man.
Aug 7, 2016 2:04 PM
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It's the media man.
sorathecrow
Because Muslims tend to try and live very strictly apart from American culture, whereas the others assimilate
amazingswingdfw
It depends on context. Muslim American’s may have different religious beliefs than Muslim’s in Qatar.
RussianMoofinsStoleMyName
Nothing is said about "African American" even though not all black people descend from Africans
AWizardOfLoneliness
I insist on being called "Open-To-The-Concept-Of-Religion-Tho-Not-Entirely-Convinced-By-It American"
Phlons
why do we have to put a word in front of American? are we trying to segregate a class of people?
leodavinci1
I mostly see people who fit hyphenated American demographics referring to themselves that way. People just don't want to let go of the past.
Dramacian
You expect logic ? American Pizza, French Fries, Belgian Waffles...
popejubal
American Pizza? I've never heard that term used before. Ever.
WhellerNG
Jewish is a weird exception, because it refers to both the race of people, and the religion that most of them follow.
Rentaldog
It doesnt matter what your background/race is. If you immigrated/were born here, you're American. You assimilated. Simple as that.
ItsJatne
We shouldn't, but people like to segregate/give special classifications to people/things they don't have personal experience dealing with.
CoozFactory
We shouldn't. Your skin color or religion should have nothing to do with your nation of origin. PC rules bruh.
OnlyMyHonestOpinion
Who the fuck says Muslim American? FOX News? I have honestly never heard that.
YouKnowThatRandomGuyWhoLikesVikingsNamedBerzerkerlord
Careful you might make the Atheist Americans mad talking about religion.
JasonAbbadon
We prefer the term"Rational Americans", thank you very much.
MaelstromVanguard
We really don't call them that. It's just the loud people who confuse "Muslim" for an ethnicity.
usernamegeneratorerror
No one calls them that you racist fuck, we call them towel heads like everyone else.
bunnyrut
african-american to describe black people is also dumb. i knew a lot of black people who from other countries and they were always (1)
bunnyrut
offended. like calling every hispanic person mexican-american. if you were born in america you are american. that's it. (2)
DudePlayinADudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude
It's only mentioned when religion seems relevant.
xXforeverXaloneXx
Because they're all terrorists
fendercrust
That's not true fam.
xXforeverXaloneXx
I was kidding lol
einbandit
Gods I hate catholics.
TheDreaded1
I have literally never heard anyone in the real world say Muslim American.
FlyByGRider
Why do we call people African-American?
LoudAngryJerk
but people do get called christian and jewish americans... soooo
parrmich
What about African or European American... I've literally NEVER heard European American...
ThisIsMyRealAccount
Only out of touch people still use African American. You don't know where they are from: is a black dude from Paris in NYC African American?
ISupportYourViews
I hear it on occasion, and not just from racists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Americans
LearnedCoward
David Duke says it all the time
PlantainSuperNova
Irish american, italian american, german american, polish amerixan.
Deathsloveforcats
Yes i was about to say this. It annoys me
mdzmdz
WASP?
amoeba15
That's a specific subset. Doesn't apply to all of European descent. Also a great band.
powwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Shouldn't native americans be americans and americans be european americans?
shadDomino
Um I prefer "Jedi American " Thank you
Dramacian
Trup will build a Death Wall around to prevent you from coming.
MamaKin
I feel the same way about the term "African American", or "Asian American". I never hear "Irish American" or "Swedish American".
Tiskel
You would have if you were around in the late 19th century. Times change, words change, demographics change.
MamaKin
It's 2016. It's time for more change.
Whospenisisinmycoffee
Jewish Americans already go by Plaintiff.
sman90
Ha, dick
Cotrex
Oy vey
NegativePositivePrimitive
AgolfHiller
So why is African American still a thing
vexxed14
It replaced N*gger so baby steps yah?
MaelstromVanguard
Because apparently "black" isn't politically correct enough.
bentheretoo
Or we identify everyone that way. I am an athiest Canadian.
aluskn
"There is no god. Sorry."
DirtyImmaturePottymouthedSmartass
I'm Texan-American. We can call each other "redneck", but you can't use that word. That's OUR word.
boxmax
Cause you're more athi than anyone else ever?
LearnedCoward
Of all the 36 million people in Canada, he is by far the most athy.
JasonAbbadon
Muslims DON'T call themselves that.
User134
Some do
woodjoiner
I took it to mean when talking about a person who is muslim.
User134
Some do
KleptoGizmo
They probably just call themselves Muslim
fendercrust
It's more about the media calling them Muslim Americans when they're just Americans.
1navn
Or Greg or Christopher
Walatalalaw
Or stuff like Steve or Kevin or whatever
Grapefruitspoon
Or Mustapha, more often
PlantainSuperNova
Whoa slow down with the assumptions there Brad.
MichaelScottPaperCompanyInc
Or American?
KleptoGizmo
I don't think I would refer to them as an American because no one would know who I was talking about (too vague)