People rarely refer to themselves as Scottish-American or Korean-American. They'll usually just say "Scottish" of "Korean". But if someone says they're Japanese-Italian, you GENERALLY think they're half of each, not that they're a Japanese person living...

+65 People rarely refer to themselves as Scottish-American or Korean-American. They'll usually just say "Scottish" of "Korean". But if someone says they're Japanese-Italian, you GENERALLY think they're half of each, not that they're a Japanese person living in Italy, right? So why don't we think that way of someone who is [insert ethnicity]-American? amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

sigh, long post ಠ_ಠ

by Anonymous 14 years ago

sorry, it was in response to another post.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

this is just really confusing. so i vote no.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Makes sense to me

by Anonymous 14 years ago

essentially, if you meet someone who says that they are japanese-italian, you wouldn't be meeting them in japan or italy. if you meet someone like that in the US, you wouldn't assume that they live in japan or italy, because they probably live in the usa. whereas, if you meet someone who is african-american, they probably do live in america.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

also, if i meet someone who calls themself an italian-american, i don't assume that they are of entirely italian descent. if i meet them in america and they speak decent english, i assume they are of italian and american descent.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think of people descending from Italy, France, Ireland, etc, as European American. We don`t say Sudanese American or Ghanan American, we just say African American, so why not European American?

by Anonymous 12 years ago