> Why I said US culture is that's where this so called culture originated. Because you don't like doesn't mean it's not American. Parent isn't protesting your

> Why I said US culture is that's where this so called culture originated. Because you don't like doesn't mean it's not American. Parent isn't protesting your usage of American, but the lumping of black US culture with non-black us culture. They defend this meaning in their follow up reply. To re-iterate, most (all?) descendents of slaves in the US cannot trace their heritage prior to the slave ships so its not possible to do in this country what is done in yours ("Nigerian" instead of the more generic black). The same thing has happened with whites in the US for different reasons. > I will refuse to distinct culture by race Any way of grouping people, artificial or not, can produce a unique culture. In the case of black americans, the history of slavery and the ensuing oppression that followed has done just that. We'll never erase the legacy. It is possible we'll one day lose the distinction of "black" culture as anything but an historical artifact, and have only american culture, but that would take generations AFTER stamping out the final remnants of racism as a starting point. As it stands, some of our parents attended segregated schools, and many of us have friends or even family who still hold genuinely racist beliefs. That manifests in many ways. We are a long way from slavery, but we still have a long way to go.