Is ethnicity still important to white ethnic racial groups in the 21st century?

This is a hard question to answer.  I think it is important to them as a whole because I feel like most people want to feel a sense of belonging and knowing where they come from and if they don't they miss out on a whole world of cultural understanding and history itself.  One can get a taste of this belonging feeling if they were discuss where you are from in the states, such as the mid west, or from Iowa, but it is not the same as saying that we have ancestors from Western Scotland.  If people knew where they came from, such as the Irish people, and knew all the things that the British people have done to them, they might think differently about how things came to be in the United States, and the power institutions that led to their discrimination when they first arrived.  As to the question, do white ethnic racial groups feel that that their ethnicity is important today; I would have to say that less and less white people are caring where they came from and the cultures that led to them being where they are today.  Most of them weren't taught their cultural history and don't have records of their genealogy.  My family happens to have records of our family dating back to 1140 in Scotland!  I find this information important to me because I know where I came from and I know what my family was bread for; which is being a warrior, or being a preacher of peace, and standing up for what they believe in.  This carried all the way through to when my family entered the United States and up until the present.  If people don't know their cultural history, how can it be important to them?