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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it that white Americans are the only group not allowed to describe themselves according to their ancestry, whereas there are African Americans, Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, Latinos, etc.  I think that's OP's point.  White is an outdated term and does not describe ancestral origin.[/quote]

And what is the problem with a white person from European descent saying they are of French or Hungrian descent? I have no problem with that. However it is not accurate for all American whites to be called Euromerican, American European, or Indigenous European.  As another pp pointed out you conveniently  ignore a long history of migration. You do know there are very fair skinned throughout the world who would be perhaps called white yet don't hail from Europe? In America there are people of this type of background that you would never outwardly know are non Euro descent yet you would be incorrectly lumping them as such with your weird Indigenous European name.

What exactly are you trying to "name"? Is it color? Is it descent/ethnicity/heritage? If it's the latter we have that already with many populations who gladly identify as Irish American, Italian American, and of X country heritage or simply of X country.

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