Oh goody. This will be another sensitive "polictically correct" term that we will ALL have to walk around on eggshells about because the group in question can't agree on what they wish to be called or how they wish to be addressed. It was like this with the terms Negro, black, Afro-American, African American, etc.... at the onset of the civil rights movement and remains so to this day. Some black people HATE to be called "African American" primarily because they have no known African ancestors. Still other DETEST "black" simply because their skin is a cocoa latte' color, etc......
The "Miss", "Mrs." vs "MIZZZZZZZZ" was another big deal too that didn't need to be. Then we have people of various Latin American heritages who are resentful of "Hispanic" and do NOT want to be put "in the same boat", if you will, with people of Mexican descent. People of Asian descent got pissed off YEARS ago about being reffered to as 'Oriental" because "Oriental" should only be used to describe an inanimate object like a rug or vase (who knew?), but it was "ok" to say that were FROM "The Orient".
Last I looked I am more of a beige than white, but I don't really give a damn if census takers or statisticians refer to me "cacasian", "white", "French-Irish-Indian", or whatever. I don't count though because I have am not affiliated (enough) with a recognized
group who was oppressed or inslaved in the acceptable way (Irish doesn't "count",because black slaves trump Indian AND the Irish slaves combined)Unless of course you count my femaleness and coming into teenhood and adulthood in the 70's and 80's. While I do qualify to be a member of that oppressed group, the moomie wars trump any and ALL oppressed females because they squat out kyds.
I suppose I just don't fit into any minority group or acceptable oppressed group worthy of special priveleges, perks, and extra rights, but I think that is rather odd. Being over 40, with working plumbing, and CHOOSING to have never created any replicas of myself, reproduce a living bond with every man I have slept with, and have a lovechild in every corner of the continental United States, places me in a HUGE minority group. I think that TRULY being a part of a minority group is best expressed and described by having so few people IN said group that you are overlooked, considered less important, and largely dismissed in whole or part, by the majority. I guess I am in the caucasian, heterosexual,over 40 , and CF by choice female minority.