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Originally Posted by Acajack
Also bling and misogyny are not traditional African culture. No more than any other culture anyway.
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I wasn't referring to those. I highlighted the parts that are often critiqued -- the African-style clothing, Africanized names etc. as "pseudo-African".
Some people call that inauthentic, for instance, when you have African Americans eschewing an "English" name for a name like Jamal, Tanisha, Ayeshah, etc.
But that in my eyes is at the very least no less authentic in terms of "re-connecting" to one's past than say, an Irish American who already had family assimilated to English only for five generations, who doesn't speak Gaelic, reconnecting to his/her roots by say naming his daughter Siobhan instead of Joan for instance. Or a Chinese American who no longer speaks any Chinese language but decorates her house with scrolls of Chinese paintings and other stylized symbols of identity.