Should White people be called European American??

Question

Hmm, lets ponder this a minute... If I am called a African American, then my descent is from Africa.. Doesn't that make white people, European Americans with a descent from European Countries... You can't be native to this land cause you would be Native American and if you are true Caucasian, then why do you call yourselves white.Because Caucasian has a prefix of Asian and Asians have a slight tint to their skins, but yet society refers to you as white...strange you weren't the first people to inhabit america...

Don't you think you should be called European American?

Answer 1

Nope.  Technically since the cradle of civilization is Africa, we should all be called African Americans.  We all have a common African ancester and share common DNA.  The lightening of skin, eyes, hair was a natural mutation as our ancesters migrated out of Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago and began colonizing the rest of the world where colder climates required different survival techniques.

Answer 2

i'm white.and i am german., so i am european american. we are white. white oys don;t like white girls they love hisnpanic girls

Answer 3

no,everybody should be called American,no labels

Answer 4

You racist jerk!!

I'm Swiss-American.

It's obvious because of how my eyebrows arch and how I love to yodel and my fondness for short pants with suspenders.  

Actually, I'm not white at all, I'm pigmentally challenged.  (Hmmm... I wonder if that means I can park in the handicap spot?)

I have freckles, so we're actually the same color, your color is just more evenly spread out, mine is concentrated in little dots.

Answer 5

And what do you call a white guy from lebanon?  Asian American?  I could care less if you call me white, Caucasian or European American.  All this hyphenated American c**p was started by politically correct idiots who thought, white, black, asian and indian were offensive labels.

Answer 6

Some people from Pakistan are white, the ones from the mountains. They neither come from America or Europe!!

Answer 7

I think we should all be Americans. I think America is the only country that labels the people in their country.  

Answer 8

ok, hmmmmm, we all came from somewhere else.  Why dont we just call ourselves AMERICANS?  I dont call myself an Irish, german, native american.  I am an AMERICAN     PERIOD    !!!  And proud to be an American - i am.  Everyone needs to stop trying to be so d**n politically correct.

You are an American, just as I am!!!!!

Answer 9

no! dont want to be associated with Americans! ;D

Answer 10

I don't get where the term "white" comes in on all that...

In reality, America needs to drop the specific labels for all.

If we were both born and raised in the U.S., ancestors long departed from those other countries, than nationality/culture-speaking...you are no more African than I am European. The only connection we still have to those places is skin tone, if even that, which is a pretty thin connection.