I dunno. I think it’s pretty silly to make a false claim about what you have posted when we can just scroll up a bit and see the truth. You made no claim that misusing the term (outside the U.S.) was ridiculous; you said the term, itself, was ridiculous–a point you have repeated in your last post. If you are being misunderstood, it is because you choose to express yourself poorly.
There is no false claim on my part. There is no difference in my argument between any statement I make that African-American is misuse of the term as a synonym for black, and the statement that the term “African-American” is wrong as a synonym for black. You are trying to split a non-existent hair. Feel free to delete “misuse” wherever it occurs.
To ensure comprehension — context appears to mean little to you — delete the word “misuse” in your mind, not literally in this thread. Otherwise, if you delete in this thread the word “misuse” in the sentences in which I use the term, the structure of the sentences in which “misuse” appears could be altered, to their detriment, gramatically.
Your single-minded devotion to your TRVTH is noted.
You made no argument. You simply made an unsupported assertion in insulting terms with no rationale for your particular position. The fact that the term can be (and has been) misused outside the U.S. is hardly an argument to reject its use inside the U.S. (which has been the primary focus of this thread), particularly when you have done nothing to explain why it is less correct than identifying U.S. citizens of Irish descent as Irish-Americans.
Your ethnic Dutch immigrants from South Africa would, typically, be identified as South African-American.* People who are recent immigrants generally refer to their nation of origin. The term African-American, by identifying the continent and no particular country, identifies people who were imported before the current nation-states of Africa were established and whose regional and ethnic history was suppressed.
- There is, of course, the possibility that the couple might choose to self-identify as Dutch-American in the way that others identify themselves as Welsh-American despite the elimination of Wales as an independent nation many years ago.