Hvide amerikanere: Forskelle mellem versioner

'''Hvide amerikanere''' er [[amerikanere]], der betragtes eller rapporteres som [[hvide mennesker|hvide folk]]. [[United States Census Bureau]] definerer hvide folk som dem, der har oprindelse i de originale folkeslag i [[Europa]], [[Mellemøsten]] eller [[Nordafrika]].<ref name="Census2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf |title=Definition of Race Categories Used in the 2010 Census |date=marts 2011 |editors=Karen R. Humes, Nicholas A. Jones, and Roberto R. Ramirez |publisher=United States Census Bureau |page=3 |format=PDF |accessdate=8. september 2013}}</ref> Som alle officielle amerikanske racekategorier har "hvide" en [[ikke-hispanic hvide|"ikke hispanic eller latino"]] og en [[hvide hispanic og latinamerikanere|"Hispanic eller Latino"]] opgørelse,<ref name=Census>{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-4.pdf|title=The White Population: 2000|publisher=United States Census Bureau|date=august 2001|accessdate=10. marts 2011}}</ref> sidstnævnte består primært af [[hvide mexicanere|hvide]] [[mexicansk-amerikanere]] og [[hvide cubanere|hvide]] [[cubansk-amerikanere]]. Udtrykket "[[den kaukasiske race|Caucasian]]" benyttes ofte skiftevis med "white", tiltrods for at udtrykkene ikke er synonymer.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2198124/|title=Do white people really come from the Caucasus?|first=Derek|last=Thompson|work=Slate|date=19. august 2008|accessdate=10. marts 2011}} ''Caucasians included most Europeans, Northern Africans, and Asians as far east as the Ganges Delta in modern India.''</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.yale.edu/yjhple/issues/vi-spr01/docs/lee.pdf|title=The meanings of "race" in the new genomics: Implications for health disparities research|first1=Sandra Soo-Jin|last1=Lee|first2=Joanna|last2=Mountain|first3=Barbara A.|last3=Koenig|year=2001|journal=Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics|volume=1|pages=33–75|pmid=12669320|access-date=31. marts 2017|archive-date= 3. marts 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204116/http://www.yale.edu/yjhple/issues/vi-spr01/docs/lee.pdf|url-status=yes}}</ref><ref name="books.google.com">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SVoAXh-dNuYC&pg=PA57 |title=Sharing the Dream: White Males in Multicultural America |author=Dominic Pulera |page=57 |website=Books.google.com |date=2004-10-20 |accessdate=2016-10-22}}</ref><ref name="Reynolds Farley 1991 pp. 414, 421">Reynolds Farley, 'The New Census Question about Ancestry: What Did It Tell Us?', ''Demography'', Vol. 28, No. 3 (August 1991), pp. 414, 421.</ref><ref name="Lawrence Santi 1985 pp. 44-6">Stanley Lieberson and Lawrence Santi, 'The Use of Nativity Data to Estimate Ethnic Characteristics and Patterns', ''Social Science Research'', Vol. 14, No. 1 (1985), pp. 44-6.</ref><ref name="Mary C. Waters 1986 pp. 82-86">Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters, 'Ethnic Groups in Flux: The Changing Ethnic Responses of American Whites', ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'', Vol. 487, No. 79 (September 1986), pp. 82-86.</ref>

De største herkomster af hvide amerikanere er: [[tysk-amerikanere]] (16,5 %), [[irsk-amerikanere]] (11,9 %), [[engelsk-amerikanere]] (9,2 %), [[italiensk-amerikanere]] (5,5 %), [[mexicansk-amerikanere]] (5,4 %), [[fransk-amerikanere]] (4 %), [[polsk-amerikanere]] (3 %), [[skotsk-amerikanere]] (1,9 %), [[hollandsk-amerikanere]] (1,6 %), [[norsk-amerikanere]] (1,5 %) og [[svensk-amerikanere]] (1,4 %).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-parsed=true&-ds_name=ACS_2008_1YR_G00_&-_lang=en&-_caller=geoselect&-format=|title=American FactFinder - Search|first=U.S. Census|last=Bureau|publisher=|access-date=31. marts 2017|archive-date= 7. januar 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107121635/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y|url-status=yes}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author1=Sharon R. Ennis|author2=Merarys Ríos-Vargas|author3=Nora G. Albert|date=maj 2011|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf|format=PDF|title=U.S. Census Bureau|page=14|accessdate=11. juli 2011}}</ref> Til trods for dette menes engelsk-amerikanere og britisk-amerikanere at være underopgjort, eftersom flere af disse selvrapporterer og identificerer sig som [[amerikansk etnicitet|amerikanere]] (6,9 %), pg.a. længden af den tid, som deres forfædre har beboet USA.<ref name="books.google.com"/><ref name="Reynolds Farley 1991 pp. 414, 421"/><ref name="Lawrence Santi 1985 pp. 44-6"/><ref name="Mary C. Waters 1986 pp. 82-86"/> Der er 0,5 % [[dansk-amerikanere]].