[quote=Lucius Cypher]
Sort of like just referring to all European people as "White", in a more informal case.
[/quote]

Mixed-white ethnicity blessings rain down on me! My mother tried to get me and my family to hold our Italian ancestry dear (even if it was less than a quarter of our ancestry), but failed miserably. I was always a red-white-and-blue bleeding 'Merican at heart.