Re: "Whiteness" Re: Obseneties

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
>
> > >>or a American-European?
> >
> > Eh? How in the name of all logic can someone be an American European???  Am
> > I missing something, or is that not a fairly large pond between America &
> > Europe?  Aren't they different places.
>
> The term I usually hear is Euro-American or European-American, making it
> closer to other "racial" names like African-American, Asian-American, etc.
>
> These types of terms are, IMHO, an utter waste of time.  Euphamisms to
> avoid other equally ridiculous names.
Actually, I *have* seen Asian-people-brought-up-partly-in-parents'-Asian-
culture-and-partly-in-American-culture identify themselves as
"Asian-Americans," not as a color thing, but as a cultural thing.  Many
people with Asian parents and American citizenship who are my age have
this cultural clash problem; we deal with it all the time and are sort of
caught in a neither-fish-nor-fowl situation.  I don't know that the term
is all that "accurate," but as a cultural identification doubtless some
people find it helpful.

YHL