Panethnicity

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

I would in some ways agree and disagree with the idea that panethnicity is appropriate or a useful response to racial lumping and discrimination. Panethnicity may be a good response to these things because it is simply a way to identify a large group of the population based on the commonalities that they share and often embrace. One benefit that could be seen by doing this is that often times the bigger your group is the louder your voice will be heard. Espiritu brought up the fact that many times Asian American cultures struggled to make their voices heard in a variety of places such as politics, but with grouping together in larger numbers it's makes it easier for them to stand out. Panethnicity may be seen as negative however, because you are not seeing the individual differences of the people within in this mass grouping of people, you are simply seeing the main commonalities amongst them. So some may say they lose some of their personal identity by using the response of panethnicity.