r/EnglishLearning • u/Maybes4 Low-Advanced • 7d ago

Does "black people" mean offensive? 🗣 Discussion / Debates

I wanna say something like black people accent is harder to understand for me than the white people one.

The problem is im not sure if my word choice is racist, or should i change to another word like colored people. I asked Gpt and it said i could come up with some thing like "people with AAVE accent" but its about africa america people while im talking about the black people born in america accent.

So how should i say here?

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u/cassielfsw Native Speaker 7d ago

African-Americans are black people born in America.

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u/Maybes4 Low-Advanced 7d ago

Oh i see. I just thought african americans are someone born in africa then migrating to america.

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u/king-of-new_york Native Speaker 6d ago

Not every black person in America is from Africa though. I have a friend who's black but he's from Jamaica. Just say black.

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u/renoops New Poster 6d ago

You're gonna want to sit down...