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stickfigureyesterday at 10:22 PM1 replyview on HN

Ethnicity is a social construct with some fuzzy boundaries, but I don't think anyone credible tries to claim that there is an "American Ethnicity". Usually when that term comes up it's from some racist overly proud that someone in their ancestry came over on the Mayflower.

Personally I think it's one of the strengths of this country that a first generation immigrant can come here and become an American. I don't think this is very common around the world.


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Amezarakyesterday at 10:33 PM

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Census-2...

Large numbers of people report their ancestry simply as "American."

I would actually argue this is the origin of a lot of political divisiveness in the US. It also sort of boils down to the "America as an immigrant/proposition nation" vs "America as a settler nation" debate. The former seems to be ascendant in the past few decades but it's definitely not consensus.