When you ask for Nationality, means where you are born. That means I'm American.... If you ask me what's my Race/Ethnicity then I will say I'm Asian / Chinese / Vietnamese. From what I learned Race... is more or less Continental... Ethnicity gets closer to what country / tribe / group your ancestors are from... and nationality is just where you are born, literally. I could be wrong. IE for Ethnicity can get really specific such as how jaimecosio stated. You can get really political when you focus on the race and ethnicity so I try to keep it broad.

I lot of people misuse the words race / ethnicity / nationality.

 

Filipino-American.

 

with a name like Vito...I gotta be 100% Italian
Fathers straight off the boat from Sicily and my mother was born here in the US, so I guess Im a first generation Italian-American.

 

I think you should add a Pacific Islander Category

 

I pick Asian. Filipinos are also Asians but we have Spanish sounding last names and americanized first names . I don't think we are Pac. Islander unless some Filipinos moved to Guam, Hawaii, etc.

Read more about the Invisible Minority (Filipino Americans) here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_American

 

American, I was born here.

Of course my ancesters were standing on the beach waving hello at Leif Erickson and Colombus when they came sailing by.

 

FrogBox - Oh i know - most of us (including myself) are american - but what do you consider yourself? ...meaning what nationality are you mostly?

 

Again.... use the word nationality incorrectly. You probably mean ethnic background.

 

Very true

 

I thought I had covered your question about my what I concidered my self in the post.
My father came from the reservation in Oaklahoma where he was born that the government sent my relatives to when they moved them from South Carolina, where my grandfather was born. Trail of Tears ( if your not too sure google it)

That answer it?

 

bump

 

100% Pinoy - Born & Raised.

 

this would be valuable if it included the most frequent ethnic groups

from wikipedia:

The United States is a very ethnically diverse country. According to the 2000 census, it has 31 ethnic groups with at least one million members each, and numerous others represented in smaller amounts.

The majority of Americans descend from white European immigrants who either arrived after the establishment of the first English colonies or after the period Reconstruction (1863-1877). This majority -- 75.1%[22] in 2000 -- decreases each year in percentage, and is expected to become a plurality by 2050. The most frequently stated European ancestries are German (15.2%), Irish (10.8%), English (8.7%), Italian (5.6%) and Scandinavian (3.7%). Many immigrants also hail from Slavic countries such as Poland and Russia. Other significant immigrant populations come from eastern and southern Europe and French Canada.

Hispanics from Mexico are second only to the German-American population in the single-race category. Hispanics comprise 13% of the population (2000 census) which include people from South and Central America. People of Mexican descent made up 7.3% of the population in the 2000 census and about 66% of the Hispanic-American community. This proportion is expected to increase significantly in the coming decades.

African Americans or Blacks comprise 13% (2000 census) of the American population. This percentage includes 0.6% of individuals that identified as black and one or more other race. The initial wave of people from Africa arrived as indentured servants, and later were enslaved, particularly throughout the colonial period and infancy of the new nation (1690-180. Today, African Americans are spread throughout the country, but the population is largely concentrated in the Southern United States and the cores of the major urban centers of the north.

Asian Americans, including Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, are a fourth significant minority (4% of the population in 2000). Most Asian Americans are concentrated on the West Coast and Hawaii with a growing concentration in the New York City Metropolitan Area and Northern Virginia. The largest groups are immigrants or descendants of emigrants from the Philippines, China, India, Vietnam, South Korea, and Japan.

Indigenous peoples in the United States, such as American Indians and Inuit, make up 1% of the population (2000 census). About 35% live on Indian reservations.

For the first time ever, American citizens were able to list all of the racial, ethnic, or ancestry groups which they felt was appropriate for them in the 2000 census. For example, a person could be counted in both the Italian and the Irish ancestry group if they described themselves as being of dual ancestry.

 

From what I remember in my Asian Americans studies class, most Koreans that are here right now in the United States are actually North Koreans... I got that information from Ronald Takaki's (Professor at University of California, Berkeley) book "Strangers from a different Shore".

 

im suprised there arent more italians - i knew the asian population is up there.

 

and what's funny to me is that whereas i think you could lump most europeans into one category, I have a hard time thinking of people from India and filipinos as coming from the same ethnic group (above called 'asian')

In fact, these all seem to me like distinct ethnic groups: Philippines, China, India, Vietnam, South Korea, and Japan

 

I think the title should be changed to:

What's your ethnicity???

Or someone can just start over a poll on this to be more precise on the choices. Just my $0.02

 

.25 german
.25 portuguese
.50 random european shizz

 

surprisingly theres aren't laos/hmong listed , in california at least they are very prevalent.


great info reading some of that 2000 census info. neat.

 

lao/hmong are predominantly located in Stockton, Weed, Shasta and some in SoCal.