[SkyDancer]

Since the government decided to classify people as hyphenated Americans maybe they should revert to states as in New York-American or Oklahoma-American ... /s

The US is the only country in the world that classifies its citizens.

[NakedRampage]

India?

[Scanian]

I personally refuse to use any term popularized by Jesse Jackson.

Last fall, I was hospitalized for an ongoing problem. The male nurse who was charged with admitting me asked some personal questions, one of which was “What ethnicity are you?” “American,” I answered. He persisted: “But what kind of American?” “American-American,” I replied.

I guess he realized he was going nowhere with the interview, so he scribbled something on the form and left the room.

[Tupelo]

How about calling them any thing they want? Or maybe any translation of the word Black. From Spanish to English to Latin. After all every one does not speak Ebonics.

[TMD]

I think in Canada they use a term “Visible Minority”

[dsrtsage]

“The US is the only country in the world that classifies its citizens.”

That is not quite true. But I have noticed that traditionally “white” countries are the only countries that have large amounts of “races” in them. Most other countries in the world are mostly “mono-race”. Though many of them have conflicts between religious sects and tribes, most of which outsiders wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between.

How many non Mexican looking people do you see living in Mexico?