Might sound weird, but wouldn't it be LESS racist for people to identify as White than the separate, distinct, "pure" British, French, German, and so on? For those nationalities to remain distinct races in USA and Europe, they have to be insular and exclusionary

My sperm donor said he was Cherokee, but according to 23AndMe, I'm English, Irish, Scandinavian, German, Dutch, and full stop. My last name is my maternal grandfather's accidental Frankification in an attempt to Anglicize a hard-to-spell Germanized Polish name or possibly Jewish who knows. My grandfather was an agnostic Marxist WWII veteran, and his parents were a Catholic and a protestant, which was controversial for his tiny Minnesotan town. My maternal grandmother came from a pre-revolutionary New England WASP bloodline, which makes it kind of eerie that I still have zero non-western-European genes after that long on the continent. I live in California, within walking distance of the hospital where I was born, and within an hour's drive of where my maternal grandparents lived after moving here in the 1950s.

If that doesn't technically make me ethnically a white American, I don't know what would.

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