After almost a decade, I find myself still trying to figure out my own identity. Then I thought, maybe this doubt has bothered me far more than a decade, I was born with it; and the fact it is more pronounced right now is because of the classes I am taking, in which this issue is constantly being addressed and my uncertainty being confronted. "When a Martian looks at us, we are all the same." Are we?
For the first time, I heard the term "African German". Does the attempt to make the term more "politically correct" actually politically incorrect? How would these "African Germans" feel about some North-American calling them that and do "politically correct terms" really make anything better? I never heard any German using that term.
But I suppose some people need this, and everyone who uses "political correct terms" knows that they are using it, some people need this step to define other people and negotiate with their own conscious at the same time. Whatever works. Even when it is not truly necessary.
