Should white people be called European Americans?

Question

With our hysterical PC culture today, where it's apparently unhip to just be an American, just for parity's sake shouldn't white people be identified with their European heritage?

Answer 1

Yes, that would be the most fair and politically correct.

Answer 2

I personally think that anyone who is a citizen of the United States of America should just be called an American.

Not African-American or Latino-American. Not Euro-American. Just plain old American.
We are a melting pot. Our pot is rich from many cultures and regions of the world. But in the end we are all Americans.

Answer 3

Only the first generation of europeans in America can be called European Americans. but second generation and so forth should not be...becuz they are not European in anyway, such as donot have a European accent. American crap is so much in-grained in them that .....No, plz don't call yourself European American!!

Answer 4

It's not really the fact that white people don't want to be called just American, it's the fact that white people don't acknowledge the fact that other people that aren't white are American; thus calling them by their family's culture.

Hope you understand what i'm saying.

Answer 5

I was born and raised in the states, however my parents (and grandparents) were all born and raised in Puerto Rico. Casually speaking i do not identify myself as Puerto Rican-American to others, i simply state i am Puerto Rican. The reason i answer this way, is because this is where my heritage lies and i believe this is what folks want to know when they ask me where am i from.

Answer 6

Racially they are Caucasian
Ethnically they are Anglo (and that will explain the heritage: Anglo-Saxon)
Nationality is American unless they live in another country, then change accordingly.

Answer 7

What about me: I'm part "European American" and part "Native American". Does that make me "European-Native American"? I look "white"; I call myself "white".

Answer 8

Yes just like African American African means Black so as White means European......duh that is my reasoning...............i am African cuz i am Cameroonian and if i have a child on US ground guessss what he is till African but of American NAtionality.... plain and simple to me

Answer 9

Aren't they already called Irish/Scots/German/whatever Americans?

My Scots American friends are proud to be Americans but also proud of their Scots ancestry.

Answer 10

Do what you want: Australian American; Canadian American, European American; ~ do what you want. I want to be called Afro-Jamaican-Cuban- Indian - Chinese- Scottish American ~ this is what I go by.. Don't get it wrong!

Answer 11

Yes, and that would make them an identifiable minority, able to get the same benefits as the other minorities. Wouldn't that be cool.