I agree. It’s ridiculous and regressive. But the power’s that be demand it.
Yes, they want to create the false divisions so they get reliant vote banks.
“White” clubbing together English, Italian, Russian, Greek, Turk in one group when they are utterly different culturally is insane. Just as clubbing together Nigerian, Jamaican, Somali, etc as “black” is insane.
The USA is increasingly mixed, a race in it’s own.