I agree with you Mr Happy regarding both of your posts.

I have used "European American" as a general referent. But I certainly don't think its inappropriate to use the the specific ethnic group referent [such as Irish American]. I find it interesting that "English American" doesn't seem to be used as a group referent for those people from England. Instead the term "English" is used by itself. Have other people found this to be so? and why is that, I wonder?

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Also, I think that people from African nations living in the USA refer to themselves by the name of their nation {for instance, people from Nigeria refer to themselves as Nigerians, not Nigerian Americans...and maybe they actually refer to themselves by the ethnic group they belong to such as Yoruba or Ibo}.

But I think that other people seeing these Black Africans in the USA refer to them as Black people or Black Americans or African Americans.

Is this correct or incorrect? I don't know.

I'm curious as to how Africans in Canada and in the UK refer to themselves and how others refer to them.