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In American and Western minds, African = Sub Saharan African aka Black . So African American denotes the descendants of slaves from Africa aka Black people. It is a racial classification.Why does African-American make some sense, but not Asian-American?
White also obviously denotes a racial classification.
Native American also obviously denotes a racial classification.
As you can see the US census classification system uses racial classifications for the above 3 but does not use racial classification for Asian-American or Hispanic Americans. Asian-American used to be called Asian/Pacific Islander. An Asian-American could be from India, Cambodia, Korea , Indonesia, Nepal, China, Vietnam etc.. but obviously they are all not the same race. In the US Rohingya and Burmese (Bamar) would both be considered Asian-American and thus belonging to the same group.
Census should be consistent and use only racial classification. That is why I said both Hispanic/Latino and Asian American categories are illogical.
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