This ex-wife of mine happened to have been born and raised in Cuba, as were both of her parents.  When official documents asked her to identify her race, being allowed to only pick one from a list, she sometimes checked "White", sometimes "Hispanic".  I never did ask her why she sometimes chose one and sometimes the other.  Of course, it's silly; Hispanic isn't a race anyway.

When I worked as a Census Enumerator in the 2000 Census, I believe it was the very first time respondents were allowed to choose multiple responses under "Race".

The "Asian-American" label is just as dumb, considering the expanse of Asia.

This is all part of the steady mutation of the Melting Pot into the "Cultural Mosaic" -- and as Frank Miller so pointedly noted, a mosaic is something made out of broken pieces.

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Anyone else find it more than a little bizarre that people of African descent who live in Canada are still often called "African-Americans"?

At the time when Black was offensive and Negro was preferred, "nigger" was not a word people of any color worried much about. This is England, half a century ago, remember.