"Michael Cash" wrote ...
> Travers Naran brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>But then again, some Japanese seem to refer to アメリカ人 as a racial
>>description.
> 
> Yes, some do.
> 
> I recall one once who remarked that a certain Canadian didn't look
> Canadian, but instead looked more American. So I guess Canadian is a
> race too.

I recently had an interesting, if confusing, half-conversation with 
someone who I think was a US citizen of Japanese descent who, by virtue 
of nationality and English speaking ability, was referring to herself as 
'native American'.

I'm not sure she got the point I was trying to make about why that 
wasn't such a good idea.