Why aren’t white people called European Americans?
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get these nets
Veteran
You never wondered this. Be honest. hahahahaAlways wondered this.
TheKongoEmpire
The First Men
They were the one that literally invented racial categories that black people to live by.
Black Man of the Nile
All Star
Ethnic White Americans call themselves Italian-American, Irish-American, Jewish-American etc. 
Start Doing It, shyt Would Be Hilarious
Pure Water
Veteran
Because many of them can trace their linage back to their country of orgin. The majority of white people came here within the last 150 years.
African American is an ethnic name for black people who have been in American (and British Colonial America) since slavery. The name could have been anything and it would mean the same thing. We're the overall majority of black people in the US, so we have a distinction. Before the 60s (or somewhere around that), it was much more common for white people to be called Irish, Italian, German, etc...
African American is an ethnic name for black people who have been in American (and British Colonial America) since slavery. The name could have been anything and it would mean the same thing. We're the overall majority of black people in the US, so we have a distinction. Before the 60s (or somewhere around that), it was much more common for white people to be called Irish, Italian, German, etc...
They are actually. That being said if you mean why are white people in the U.S. known colloquially as white compared to European it's because that's how you defined race back in the day. Remember black people were slaves, it was an automatic, if you white, you weren't a slave. Also when Europeans started moving here in droves in the 1800s-1900s white people in power in the U.S. wanted to make a distinction between, naturalized white and *others (Italians, Irish, Russian, etc weren't considered white)
Who Not How
Superstar
They rep the country their ancestry is from if you ask. Many White Americans came in the 1900s so they know their roots and don't deny being related to Europeans.
desjardins
Veteran
Cause they know what country they come from. They call themselves Italian, Polish, Irish, etc. and if they go back to colonial roots they just called themselves "American". Most ados/fba families have been here since colonial times, should we drop the "African"
Nkrumah Was Right
Superstar
Always wondered this.
African-American is a term that black elites popularized after the 1960s. White American elites didn’t do the same…
RhodyRum
Mark Gassed-A-Heaux
Because they run this country
ReasonableMatic
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European Americans (also referred to as Euro-Americans) are Americans of Europeanancestry. This term includes people who are descended from the first European settlers in the United States as well as people who are descended from more recent European arrivals. European Americans have been the largest panethnic group in the United States since about the 17th century.
European Americans
nikkas hate to read, this is literally bare minimum in anthropology and history class smh 
European Americans
| Total population |
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| 133 million European-diaspora Americans 41% of total US population (2017)[1][a] (as opposed to 234,904,818 Americans self-identifying as white[2] 57.8% of the total US population (2020)) European Americans - Wikipedia |
