68. "I also want to push back on one of your initial assertions " In response to In response to 0
that "Every other population is recognized by the name of the country or region they come from: Chinese American, Latin American or Mexican American, etc."
While it's true that those ethnic/national groups have maintained a self identity, America has always "whiteness" (as opposite of blackness) and disregarded ethnonational origin.
Starting with the Naturalization Act of 1790, it restricted citizenship to "any alien, being a free white person". Not free Chinese person, not free Latin person, etc. White.
And groups, such as the Armenians, have gone to court and fought for their whiteness, and won.