what's your race/ethnicity?

[Anonymous]

actually, caucasian refers to being descended from the caucus mountains... which is why arabs, south asians, and europeans are caucasian, but as a south asian, i don;t think caucasian is really an accurate description...

[Anonymous]

White Mutt- Irish, Norwegian, German, Austrian, Russian, Polish. Dad's side from Russia, Poland and Austria are Jewish.

[Anonymous]

White mutt mostly

English, Irish, Dutch, German, Cherokee and French. Not enough Cherokee to have gotten anything but high cheekbones, and certainly no culture. Sad, because women are valued highly in it and can be tribal leaders.

[Anonymous]

South American
mom Spanish- Italian
dad native Peruvian

[Anonymous]

both Russian -surprised we are not the only Russians here on DCUM

[Anonymous]

Swedish!

[Anonymous]

Trinadadian/Irish
Kenyan/African American

[Anonymous]

Mostly white. My father is half Italian. The majority of our family culture and practices come from the Italian side of the family.

[Anonymous]

At what point do we simply become Americans. Why the Irish-American, Italian-American, Trinidadian-American, etc. etc. How many generations does ones family have to be in the U.S.A. before the hyphenation is dropped.

When my cousin decided to stay in Germany after his stint in the U.S. military, he and his German born wife had children. His children are not known as American-Germans, but simply German.

It appears in the good old U.S.A. it is simply not good enough to say American, there must be a hyphenation some where. I wonder where this may or could lead, especially for fairly recent immigrants. A colleague, an immigrant from Nigeria insist that her three American born children are Nigerian first and American secondary. A friend from Guyana says that her American born nieces and nephews identify with Guyanese first and then American. I am just wondering in which generation are the hyphenations dropped. I think we saw for ourselves two years ago when American born decendants of Mexican parents or grandparents were walking through the streets of Chicago, LA and other cities with Mexican flags as a form of self-identification.

[Anonymous]

When my cousin decided to stay in Germany after his stint in the U.S. military, he and his German born wife had children. His children are not known as American-Germans, but simply German.

LOL. But American is not a race/ethnicity like being German.

It appears in the good old U.S.A. it is simply not good enough to say American, there must be a hyphenation some where. I wonder where this may or could lead, especially for fairly recent immigrants. A colleague, an immigrant from Nigeria insist that her three American born children are Nigerian first and American secondary. A friend from Guyana says that her American born nieces and nephews identify with Guyanese first and then American. I am just wondering in which generation are the hyphenations dropped. I think we saw for ourselves two years ago when American born decendants of Mexican parents or grandparents were walking through the streets of Chicago, LA and other cities with Mexican flags as a form of self-identification.

Probably when they lose ties with the motherland, eg, they are not immigrants or children of immigrants and all relatives they keep in touch with are in the US.

[Anonymous]

When some Asians say American, they mean white.

[Anonymous]

German, English, Latvian
Korean, Chinese, Japanese

[Anonymous]

WASP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White south american. Mostly Spanish and Italian. White friend at work can't understand that I think I am white bc I am from South America and is amazed when she sees all my pale blond blue eyed friends pics on fb, lol

This is me as well!

[Anonymous]

Hmmm. Now I'm starting to think "American" is an ethnicity. I'm US born and raised and have lived worked and traveled on several continents. Can pass for a local in a few thanks to good language education. But I can always find "my people". We're the ones who speak just a bit louder on the train, have to remind ourselves that helmets aren't needed in football, salivate at the thought of a "real" burger. (We were the ones frontin' as Canadians during Bush 43.