  More importantly, he's a European-American.  Is there any other kind?:D You have your African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Arab-Americans, Native-Americans and then you just have..American Americans...regular old Americans ... and these are White people, European-Americans if you will.:) All of these non Whites feel the need to add a prefix before American to distinguish themselves from real Americans, because deep down they know a non White could never truly be American. ;)