African-American (Race) Groups People Consider Themselves To Be African Americans

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In the African-American (black race) group everyone considered themselves to be African American due mainly because of their culture. When speaking of ethnicity many people are not originally born in Africa but we still considered ourselves to be African American because of history during the Atlantic slave trade. McNally’s Haitian, I am Caribbean descent, jasmine was black and Puerto Rican, Boubaca however just came from Africa years ago. After, the group was divided again by religious beliefs and only Boubaca left and two others were added and resulting us to be Christian.

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