Can American be an ethnicity?

[capocannoniere]

Strictly saying, WASPs are ethnic Americans, and widely saying, all amerimutts and even Black Americans.
While white Americans are not as undistinguishable phenotypically to Europeans, they've very much their own thing in culture and mannerisms for centuries now.

[Mingle]

People have no problem considering Boers/Afrikaners as a separate ethnicity, so why not White Americans with mostly Colonial Ancestry? They overwhelmingly just consider themselves American. No hyphenated identities.

I certainly don't think all 'white' Americans are one ethnicity however.

Eh, I'd maybe extend it past colonials to English-speaking European origin Americans in general. An American of Italian ancestry that lived in the US for multiple generations and only speaks English is pretty much an ethnic White American. They assimilated into the White American ethnicity.

I'd also say that White Southerners are different enough to be their own ethnicity separate from White American. They're considered by some to be.

[Tsuin]

No, it's more of a nationality imo