Comment by sharpneli
1 year ago
It was extra hilarious when asked to generate a picture of ancient Greek philosopher it made it a Native American. Because it is well known Greeks not only had contact with the new world but also had prominent population of Native Americans.
It really wants to mash the whole world to a very specific US centric view of the world, and calls you bad for trying to avoid it.
Reminds me of when black people in the UK get called African American by Americans. No they're neither African nor American
It's an incredibly self-centered view of the world
My black African ex once chewed out an American who not only called her African American but "corrected her" after she referred to herself as black, in a very clear British received pronunciation accent that has no hint of American to it, by insisting it was "African American".
And not while in the US either - but in the UK.
This reminds me of a YouTube video from a black female from the US, where she argued that Montenegro sounds too racist. Yet, that name existed way before the US was conceived.
Wow. I've been corrected on my English (as an Englishman, living in England, speaking English) by an American before. But to be corrected of your race is something else
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Do b/Black people in the UK care about capitalization?
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I think it’s just that’s the word you’ve been taught to use. It’s divorced from the meaning of its constituent parts, you aren’t saying “an American of African descent” you’re saying “black” but in what was supposed to be some kind of politically correct way.
I cannot imagine even the most daft American using it in the UK and intending that the person is actually American.
Well it's pretty daft to call anyone American if they're not American
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Yeah it's something that happens a lot. Yesterday I've seen a video calling a white animal "caucasian".
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Yeah and so the phrase "African American" is a typical example of the ignorance of Americans thinking they're the only ones in the world.
I promise it's not because we think of people outside the US as American. When I was a kid in the 2000s, we were told never to say "black" and to say "African-American" instead. There was no PC term in the US to refer to black people who are not American. This has started to change lately, but it's still iffy.
Besides that, many Americans (including myself) are self-centered in other ways. Yes I like our imperial units better than the metric system, no I don't care that they're called "customary units" outside the US, etc.
Fahrenheit gets a bad rap.
100F is about as hot as you'll ever get. 0F is about as cold as you'll ever get. It's a perceptual system.
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Also adding that "Caucasian" was somehow the politically-correct version of "white" here, then it reversed.
That’s kind of funny. Chinese and Taiwanese transplants call natural born Americans, whether black, white or latin, “foreigners” when speaking in Chinese dialects even while they live in America.
Oh, your husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend is a “foreigner”, ma?
No, damnit, you’re the foreigner!
I enjoy that “ma” has ambiguous meaning above. Does it mean mandarin question mark word or does possibly mean mother?
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Well, they're as "African" as "African Americans" are... OTOH, Elon Musk is a literal African American (as would be an Arab immigrant to the US from Egypt or Morocco), but can't be called that. So let's admit that such group labels are pretty messed up in general.
>as would be an Arab immigrant to the US from Egypt
If you want to get *very* technical then it's possible to not be African if you're from Egypt: "Egypt is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia."
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What is the preferred term in the UK - African British?
Well if they're black and you were describing their race you'd just say they're black.
If they're black and British and you're describing their nationality you'd say they were British.
Depends. Usually black if you don't know any more. Black British if you know they are British, but a lot of black people here are born in Africa or the Caribbean, and not all will be pleased to be described as British (some will take active offense, given Britains colonial past) and will prefer you to use their country or African/Caribbean depending on context.
My ex would probably grudgingly accept black British, but would describe herself as black, Nigerian, or African, despite also having British citizenship.
If you're considering how to describe someone who is present, then presumably you have a good reason and can explain the reason and ask what they prefer. If you're describing someone by appearance, 'black' is the safest most places in the UK unless you already know what they prefer.
"Nobody" uses "African British".
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If you started calling British black people "African", it wouldn't be long before you got a punch.
Black British, because their skin is colored, and are British.
Black American, same way.
"African-" implies you were born in Africa, "-American" imples you then immigrated to America.
Elon Musk is an African-American.
13% of the US population are Black Americans.
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Elon Musk is a real African American
Elon Musk is not considered African-American according to the popular usage of the term as he is of European descent despite being born in South Africa. Lebron James is a real African-American.
That is not artificial intelligence, that is deliberate mucking with the software to achieve a desired outcome. Google is utterly untrustworthy in this regard.
AI stands for Artificial Ideology
> it is well known Greeks not only had contact with the new world but also had prominent population of Native Americans.
I’m really surprised to hear this tidbit, because I thought Leif Erickson was then first one from the old world to do venture there. Did Ancient Greeks really made contact with the Native Americans?
It was a joke. Obviously there was no contact whatsoever between the two.
Gemini basically forces the current US ethnical representation fashions to every situation regardless of how well it fits.
It's really revealing. You can pick apart the chatbot's biases with as many questions as you'd like. A real person would weasel out of that, especially a PR agent.