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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Culturally an African immigrant and African American are very different.

I’m Asian American married to another Asian American. I do not have any close Asian immigrant friends. This was not on purpose but I never really clicked with the kids, now adults, who are actually from Asia. I have Asian American friends from various ethnic backgrounds but they are all very western.

I don’t think your daughter has to try to be friends with the African American girls if she has a nice friend group.[/quote]
You are not African. You are not African American. What exactly is your expertise here? Additionally it sounds like the child herself is not an immigrant but is first generation. [b]The cultural lines between first generation descendants of Africans and the descendants of enslaved Africans quickly begin to blur as many first generation Africans begin to assimilate at least partially into black American culture.[/b][/quote]

Not really--a black American [/quote]

No exaggeration. I’ve attended around 20 cross cultural weddings over the past 3 years of 20-30 something year olds. These weddings are often made up of 1st generation Africans (and sometimes Caribbeans) marrying Foundational Black Americans. These 1st generation African men and women have often been members of D9 organizations. Many are doctors, engineers…but so are their partners. Some attended HBCUs. Some attended high schools in the DMV. I believe many are finding more congruency in culture than not particularly West Africans (Liberians, Cameroonians, Sierra Leonean, sometimes Nigerians, etc) but not so much for East Africans (Ethiopian, Somali, North Sudanese, Kenyan) but there is also some religious difference in play there in addition to cultural expectations.

Although parents might teach something, the funny thing about children is most will go against some of their parent's expectations.[/quote]

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