English beeing a west germanic language anyway.. ^^

You’re right. Spanish people are from Europe and have a very different history from Mexican Americans. However, in terms of official U.S. data like the Census, ‘Hispanic’ technically does include people from Spain. There’s a specific sub-category for them, even if their experience is totally different from those in Latin America!

Nearly 80% of the white colonist army fighting England were German. PA was the only region of the colonies that was less than 50% English descent. Maybe why Ben Franklin wanted German to be the official language. Their typically numerous offspring began moving west and south within a single generation.

As a European kid, since British and Americans speak the same language and have pretty much identical (not entirely though) names I kind of presumed that over 50% Americans must have British ancestry.

This map is based on self-classification so it can be supposed that those families assimilated into one of the other major groups.

African-American really is a misnomer because the vast majority of AA are descended form African slaves who came to America several hundred years and don’t really identity with Africa at all. Yet, African Americans are a coherent, ethnic group with their own traditions, heritage, cultural artifacts and institutions, etc. because they had a separate society that was similar but parallel to the society of European Americans.

this is really important!! but its also hard for a lot african americans to really know/track what their ethnicity is without a DNA test because their ancestors weren’t really recorded because they were mercilessly enslaved and taken away from their home nation