Originally Posted by Artful Dodger

I would absolutley count Americans as a separate Ethnic group because you, as a group, have taken bits from, and adapted the French/Itlalian/Polish etc cultures you decend from to make a hybrid that is quintesssentially American. You have unique characteristics that distinguish you hugely from the rest of the world. Some of them are very admirable and some of them are horrific but they all come together to have finally made some sort of purely American culture.