As the descendant of a long line of folk who apparently did not give a fig about nationality or “Color” of their spouse do I now have to call myself an “Irish- English - German - Italian - French American?
My maternal grandmother once tried to insult me by claiming I was part Black-Foot on my fathers side, but offered no proof.
Does that mean I am also part Indian, a-la Dizzy Warren?
It would seem as solid a claim as hers, LOL!
My brothers genealogical research is far from complete, I’m sure a couple more hyphens will come up if he keeps looking!
Being self-employed this only comes up when I am being polled, pollsters demand an ethnicity, too many of which use a color as the descriptive term.
I tell them they can use either American or “Heinz 57”.
Their usual response is that they will use “Other”, so that further biases the polls against actual Americans.
Being the son of immigrants who chose to be Americans, it has always suited me perfectly fine to be “just an American.”