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European Americans (also known as Euro-Americans) are Americans with ancestry from Europe. The Spanish were the first Europeans to establish a continuous presence in what is now the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Spanish Expedition Established St. Augustine in Florida )〕 Martín de Argüelles born 1566, St. Augustine, Florida, was the first known person of European descent born in what is now the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Latino Chronology )〕 Twenty-one years later, Virginia Dare, born in 1587 on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina, was the first child born in the Thirteen Colonies to English parents. In the 2013 American Community Survey, German Americans (14.6%), Irish Americans (10.5%), English Americans (7.7%) and Italian Americans (5.4%) were the four largest self-reported European ancestry groups in the United States forming 38.2% of the total population.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Selected Social Characteristics in the United States (DP02): 2013 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates )〕 However, the English-Americans and British-Americans demography is considered a serious under-count as the stock tend to self-report and identify as simply 'Americans' due to the length of time they have inhabited America.〔(Sharing the Dream: White Males in a Multicultural America ) By Dominic J. Pulera.〕〔Reynolds Farley, 'The New Census Question about Ancestry: What Did It Tell Us?', ''Demography'', Vol. 28, No. 3 (August 1991), pp. 414, 421.〕〔Stanley Lieberson and Lawrence Santi, 'The Use of Nativity Data to Estimate Ethnic Characteristics and Patterns', ''Social Science Research'', Vol. 14, No. 1 (1985), pp. 44-6.〕〔Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters, 'Ethnic Groups in Flux: The Changing Ethnic Responses of American Whites', ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'', Vol. 487, No. 79 (September 1986), pp. 82-86.〕 European Americans are not recognized as a group by the United States Census Bureau on their own, but are included in the category of "White". "White" is defined by the United States Census Bureau as "a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa". According to the US Census, European Americans are merely a subset of white Americans, as the census still includes Latinos in the "white" category among other non-European "whites", despite Latinos often objecting to this classification by marking "Other" in the US Census form in the area for racial background. Therefore, the term "non-Hispanic white" is often used as a proxy for European Americans, although that also includes a small fraction of peoples of Middle Eastern descent. In one study of self-classified European Americans, seventy percent, on average, had absolutely no African ancestry. The other thirty percent usually had just one African ancestor, amounting to an average of 0.7% African DNA for all European Americans. ==Terminology== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「European Americans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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