Panethnicity

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

I think that pan-ethnicity is an appropriate response to racial lumping because while racial lumping isn't always seen by all sides as something good I think it places a positive spin on things. Pan-ethnicity is defined as a political neologism used in multicultural societies for the grouping together and collective labeling of various independently distinguishable, self-identified and self-sustained ethnicities into an all encompassing group of people. I think that the term pan-ethnicity helps the Asian-American groups come together and sort of stand up against racism. Because there are so many different Asian ethnicities in America grouping them together and calling it "pan-ethnicity" I feel gives the Asian-Americans strength. This is because it is hard for them to find an identity individually but together they can find a group identity and possibly become stronger through a pan-ethnic group.