We are called "Asians" and Asian Americans, blacks also called African Americans, but how come we don't call white people "European Americans"?

Caucasia is literally partly in Asia. The term "Caucasian American" seems so arbitrary, especially when we consider how we associate people of color to their American label.

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It's often due to the history of self-identity or self-determination. Many old labels for different races were not as geographic, but were also usually made by white people. "African American" didn't come into popular use until the 1980s, and "Asian American" more like the 60s-70s. It's usually because people of a racial category don't like the old terminology (e.g. Oriental, Mongoloid) and decide on a more fitting one. White people have just never had a strong push to rebrand as "European Americans." Caucasian is an outdated term, but not one that anyone is currently all that interested in changing.

Edit: also, a lot of geography is weird anyway. Like Eurasia is one continent in every logical definition of what a continent is, but the world accepts it as two.

You’re right. I think OP has this backwards. I prefer Asian American to yellow. Plus I think the biggest complaint you’d hear from the European American label (which already exists) is there are too many syllables to use regularly

Also most people are oversimplifying the complexity of American racial terms. “White” is an evolving classification. These days Jewish Americans are mostly considered white but it could be incorrect to label them as European American.

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Race, nationality, and ethnic labels from outside and within a group are inaccurate. The group labeling another may be using their own terms rather than the actual group's definition. The actual group's definition may be inherently flawed due to subgroups and sub labels. One group's term for another may not be popular with others. Then comes the issues with language and translations between languages.

All in all, there is no end all be all label for any group.

America was first and foremost a European founded colony, but in the period when they officially established ‘the United States of america’ dont want to be considered Europeans anymore. I mean they did completely deviated from the European metric system and much more just to say they don’t want to be part of the other continent across the seas; they don’t want to be classified as a colony or hold any ties to being european