As an aside , it ' s been my nonscientific observation that most people arguing that Americans should identify as simply Americans , rather than AngloSaxon , African American , DutchAmerican , ItalianAmerican , ChineseAmerican , Navajo , Commanche , Dakota , etc . happen to be folks descended from or at least sharing common ancestry with those earlier waves of immigrants who originally settled in the Thirteen Colonies . So basically to me it sounds like people who happen to identify with the currently dominant ethniccultural group want normal baselined as being whatever they are , so they can continue to treat members of the other groups as being something other than normal Americans . <| sep |> I can imagine the conversation , much better than my family sniveling and gossiping and shouting and sobbing .