Why do is the term European American rarely used but the term African American is commonly used?

[Anonymous]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Americans

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people

The definition of white person means somebody with European ancestry so I believe that does make white Americans to be European Americans by definition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans

Black person also means a person with African ancestry but the term African-American is commonly used. I rarely hear people say European-American.

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European features are commonly thought of as attractive in many countries

If I was a white American women I would like being called European American

[Soteris]

Because Black Americans usually can't say that their ancestry comes from X tribe. Mostly because slavery stole their cultural ancestry from them. Unlike an Irish American or an Italian American or a German American most Black Americans do not have a heritage outside of slavery in USA, that is their common cultural heritage and "where it started" from their point of view.

Black Americans who might be from rival groups in Africa no longer knows about this cultural heritage and can only see themselves as black people with a shared experience and culture from slavery. Americans with a European ancestry does not suffer from this. That is why Black Americans are different in this regard and why the term is so much more used in lack of the alternative.

[OddBeMe]

There’s growing support for dropping “African” since most black American families were here before us.

[Anonymous]

Because someone decided it was politically correct to refer to black people that way. The virtue signaling crowd doesn't care about being politically correct where white people are concerned.