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Actually, "political correctness" would dictate that you DO refer to people with hyphenated extracttion; ie, "African-American", "Irish-American", "Mexican-American", etc.
"Politically incorrect" would be denying someone's ethnicity by attempting to "squash" their cultutal differences or beliefs.
Personally, I think it's all stupid. Hyphenating stuff does <B>not</B> help you "keep in touch with your roots", it only leads to divisiveness. If you were born in America, you are American. That's not a bad statement. If you don't like being American you are always free to emigrate elsewhere. If you come to the USA from elsewhere and become a citizen, you are American. So what? If you went to all the trouble of becoming a citizen, you obviously <I>wanted</I> to be an American.
Don't even get me started on those pretentious bullshit last names like "Smithfield-Corbenson" and "Hitzwelder-Marplethorpe".
Disclaimer: Sorry if I offend anyone with one of those pretentious bullshit last names. It probably isn't your fault, maybe not even your parents fault, but somewhere along the line you have a smarmy ancestor who could have used five across the eyes.
Edit: before I catch a lot of bullshit, I should point out that I am not 100% purebred American, either. My father is not from the USA and neither are my grandparents on my mother's side. I am Irish and Slovenian, but I above all I am American. That's just the way it is and it isn't a bad thing to be.
SpaceAce
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