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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
When you are born and raised in Africa, you will identify as African to a large degree. It changes how you see the world and your place in it. 

It does not imply that everyone has the same African experience. Africa is big.

I tell people that my mom was born and raised in East Africa. I am very white, blonde, and blue eyed. 

It is staggering the percentage of people who respond by asking, "Is she black?"

Like 40%.
gpt
As someone born of European heritage in Africa, I understand this

 I appreciate the way African-Americans get their nationality and ethnicity defined in their name

 As someone born in Africa but not acknowledged as African by my indigenous African countrymen, I find it appealing even if it is only a classification