Anything to do with race (but not racism, given I excluded that) - the label given is always white/Caucasian. Caucasian is not a true ethnic term, given its lost most if any it had when it got tagged along with white, to only mean that. And almost all pale-skinned people I know in the states don't really know clearly - if their family is not recently immigrated - where they are from. They lost their ethnic identity and cultural history. America isn't an old country. Where were their ancestors five hundred years ago? So many don't know. And I dislike that just calling people a meaningless term has led to so many people losing that.

On forms with race/ethnicity on it, at least in the States, most of the ones I've seen give true ethnic/cultural terms for all other colors (Latina, African-American, Asian, etc) but only "white" for pale people, as if that's all we are - a color, not more. It only encourages the stuff going on that you dislike.

And especially for those who have managed to keep a true cultural identity, those with pale skin really don't belong under the same umbrella (French v. German arguments between ethnic teachers of those type at my high school, arguments I've witnessed between ethnic Ukranians and Russians, etc). And even without thinking of it as countries people are from, slavs are very different from scots, etc.

I know that those who fall under the broad term "white" are united in regards to privilege and what not, but being lumped under it all the time ignores and encourages the erasure of so much culture.