[El Cid]

For the last 20+ years I've been taking those questionnaires (Census, etc) and putting a big 'X' through their 'ethnic classifications' and handwriting my own box with 'American' written next to it...

This isn't the Balkans.
This is the United States of America.
Once you get here (legally ... sorry, I had to add that...) you're American.
Act like it.
And drop the hyphens.

[Maceman]

For the last 20+ years I've been taking those questionnaires (Census, etc) and putting a big 'X' through their 'ethnic classifications' and handwriting my own box with 'American' written next to it...

I go even one better. I write in "Native American," since I was born here, as were my parents. My four granparents were all Jews from Russian and Poland, but they're dead.

If anyone objects that only ummm... Indians ... can be called native Americans, I politely point out that the correct term for people in that group is "Aboriginal American."

[Altura Ct.]

“This isn’t the Balkans.”

Not yet but we are getting close. If we continue with the invasion and massive third world legal immigration it won’t be very much longer.