What about descendants of Romans who live in England? Or that Spanish descendants in Colorado before the English/British discovered and annexed it?

It is the question that is the problem here and the underlying assumptions that anyone, anyone at all, has any good claim to be a native anywhere, probably, except Africa, the genetic home of us all.

indigenous vs tramontane

aboriginal vs imported

It is sad that culture have such inherent xenophobia; xenophobia is the origin of non-native ethnicities. Of course, behind the concept of culture lurks its inevitable opposite: “the other.” There are whole lists of rude English slang names that refer to non-native groups (limey=british, frog=french, etc…) ; generally these terms rose up in America as each new wave of settlement came to our shores.

Theoretically, all Americans, even those of us whose families have been here for hundreds of years–everyone in fact except the various tribes of American Indians–are of non-indigenous, non-native ethnicities.

By the way, African-American is not a race. It’s a PC word for people with dark skin color that are of African descent. If you called a black guy from Canada or Jamaica an African American, the Canadian would say “I’m Canadian, not American you yank eh?” and the Jamaican would say “I’m Jamaican mon!”

“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.” [Mark Twain]