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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This question is bizarre and really reaching.

It seems like many people who have ancestors that immigrated here but do not have any connection with their ancestry now, want a way to validate themselves.
An official "new" title, clean slate and all.

Would this apply to the Chinese immigrants that immigrated in the 1800s?  Would you be okay with them labeling themselves as ethnically American?  What about the Indians (South Asian) that immigrated here over 100 years ago?

Or would this only apply to those that are of European ancestry, aka white skin, but it's too inconvenient to remember from which countries?

Would you be the same ethnicity as Mexicans and Canadians?

What if a white skinned American whose ancestors came here long ago married a first generation or second generation person of any ancestry?  What would the child be?

Is this stemming from feelings of inadequacy?  I recall from the "Miss America" thread some were upset saying that the winner was not American or American enough.  But she was born here so is American.  But now would it be a question of whether she is "ethnically American" or not??

Seems like seeking for an "ethnic American" definition is looking for a reason to feel superior against other Americans that you deem not American enough for your liking.  This would open up all kinds of new ways to discriminate.... is that what your going for?

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+1000

This nation is unique in it's formation and it's still in it's infancy compared to most other cultures around the world.  Give it another 500-800 years and it will have a more solid form of it's identity and it's 'ethnicity'.

Maybe longer given that the nexus of this country was and is immigrants.

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