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Ross Howard <rhoward@valnet.es> wrote in article
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<<A potentially explosive question, but what the hell, I'll take the
risk: if black Americans are now African Americans, people of Irish
origin are now Irish Americans, etc., why aren't white people called
Smith referred to as "English Americans", if that's where their
forefathers originally came from.>>

  Many Anglos no doubt call themselves exactly that.

<<I simply don't understand the US obsession with ethnic origin. I'm
from England and, as far as I know, all my forefathers were too. Does
this mean I should start referring to myself as a
"Celtic/Roman/Viking/Norman Briton".>>

  If you want to do so, then do so.  Or call yourself an
"Anglo-American".    Since most of my ancestors are from Sweden, I'll
call myself a "Scandinavian-American" or "Nordic-American".
  But more importantly, I'm a native American, because here is where I
was born, just like Mr Yamakaze across the street, or Mr Stefanov on
the other side of the block.

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