I was filling out a job application to be a teacher next year. When I got to the space for ethnic origin I refused to call myself "white." Here is Guam white is a minority. I am vastly out numbered by people whose ethnic origins are Chinese, Korean, the Philippines, Japan, the Caroline Islands, Yap, Chuuk, Palau, Pohnpei, and more. White, as a race and as a color, is outnumbered.

I thought about it. They use African-American for black people. Hispanics used to be call Spanish-Americans. There are Filipino-Americans. Indians are Native-Americans. So I've decided to try something new.

European-American!

It fits, it's fair, and I like the sound of it. European-American doesn't sound as elitist as "white" and it is more accurate. Let's give it a try.

From now on I ask those who have to fill out forms and anything else that refers to your ethnic origins to use this term. When speaking with friends and acquaintances about ethnicity please use European-American to replace the former word White.

Now, here's how this works. New words are invented and once they've been in use for several years the people who write and update dictionaries begin to notice them. If a word appears to be fairly common then it gets included and becomes an official word.

So, we've got our work cut out for us. Let's get rid of the last color distinction and join the rest of the human race as their equals, not as the snobby ex-enslaver and colonizer.