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I have to wonder how much meaning there really is to the concept of “ethnicity”.
I suppose it's obvious that there is some meaning. Stand me next to a black guy, and you can see there's a difference. I'm a Caucasian, while he's Negroid. These are two different ancestral lines, that carry different and obvious genetic traits.
But what about President Obama? He's usually identified as “black”, but is he really? His father was a Negro, but his mother was a Caucasian. It would seem to me that this makes him as much “white” as “black”. If you bring culture and heritage into it, he's not really either. By culture and heritage, he has more in common with the average “white” American (being descended through a “white” American mother) than he has with the average “black” American (being descended through a father who was “black”, but not an American at all). But in fact, he has less in common culturally with either the average “black” American or the average “white” American than the average “black” and “white” Americans have with each other.
Of course, here in America, it happens all the time that people of different ethnic backgrounds marry, and have children. I wonder how far away the day is that there will be so much of the population composed of so many different mixed ethnic backgrounds that it ceases to be possible to meaningfully classify most people into specific ethnic groups.
I'm already prepared for that day. When faced with a form that asks for my race, I nearly always check the “other” box and fill in my correct race: “Human”.
Nice to see that you live in the good old state of 1950. Unless you are from the Caucasus region (Caucasus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) you are not a Caucasian. Please stop saying that you are.
On topic, no, American is not an ethnicity. It is not a minority group with in a larger population. American is a nationality.