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Meanwhile I stick to solely Chinese, Korean, and Japanese (much better here in NYC than all or most of the rest of the country) and I'm underweight. People need to eat better in the US, it's so sad. No, fat does not look beautiful, take care of yourselves.
Meanwhile I stick to solely Chinese, Korean, and Japanese (much better here in NYC than all or most of the rest of the country) and I'm underweight. People need to eat better in the US, it's so sad. No, fat does not look beautiful, take care of yourselves.
NYC gets an extra boost from all of the walking. Even like 20 minutes of walking a day is a massive difference from the virtually 0 minutes of walking you can accidentally achieve in so much of the country (car commute, elevator, desk job, drive thru dinner, deliveries from amazon).
American people mostly share the same culture, language, mentality and values. This makes "American" an ethnicity in my opinion. So, what kind of ethnicity American is? Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Mediterranean, etc?
The US is originally a British country, with a German influx. So its core is certainly northwestern European (if the UK counts as "European"). But it has people from everywhere (as do Canada and lots of other Western countries), and I'm certainly not going to discount their contributions.
So it's a northwestern European core, with a mix added.
Depending on which (other) European country I'm in, people think I'm Dutch (wrong!) or English (right, based on background!). People generally don't guess American.
IMO, The US is too heterogeneous for a true common "ethnicity."
Actually, true Americans who are of colonial descent are very homogenous. There's just two main groups: whites and blacks - with regional distinctions.
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To oversimplify, 50-60 years ago there were three primary "ethnic groups" 1) WASPs- northern European protestants who had been in the country for many generations. Wide variation in social class, but WASP dominated positions of power. Possibly divided between northern "mainline" protestants and southern baptists/evangelicals. 2) (various) Ethnic whites- southern/eastern europe catholics/jews whose ancestors arrived between 1880s-1920s. Generally blue collar and under-represented in positions of power. Concentrated in the northern industrial cities. 3) African-Americans- descents from slaves who were kept sharpy segregated from white Americans.
White Ethnic people of recent immigrant origin are different. I would eliminate group two from your list - as those are not American ethnicities if they immigrated here in the 20th century and still identify with foreign countries.
The third group should be the various indigenous American tribes.
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2) (various) non-European ethnic groups- these various nation of origin based groups are arguably converging into pan-national "Latino", Muslim, Asian, and maybe a South Asian ethnic groups.
Those are not American ethnic groups. They are new immigrants. If none of your ancestors were here before the 1970s, American history has nothing to do with you.
American people mostly share the same culture, language, mentality and values. This makes "American" an ethnicity in my opinion. So, what kind of ethnicity American is? Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Mediterranean, etc?
It is,
but too many people think that to be the same ethnicity everybody has to look the same.
Meanwhile, around the World, people see themselves as having the same ethnicity even when they don't look the same.
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