Is panethnicity an appropriate or useful response to racial lumping and discrimination?

I would have to say both yes and no. One on hand, panethnicity works to create a group of people who may share some similar qualities. These qualities could be regional, religious, physical features, and other tidbits, which can work to unify people. But within that grouping, it is also very vague. Asian-Americans are often lumped together because of their regional background and their physical features. Smaller characteristics do not seem to be as widely recognized. An example could be that often many Asian countries vary in their customs and beliefs, such as the Japanese culture would differ from Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean. However, since they are regionally close, and share similar characteristics, they all lumped together into a large sum of people. So to me it is both a good and bad response. pan ethnicity works to see a group of people as different and acknowledges their difference, but it does so vaguely, not recognizing the more deep categories that are just being thrown together into one big group. I want to say It may even take away the individuality of a certain country's religion and culture by giving a broad label to their people.