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Originally Posted by Wooglin
I've never heard of an Irish-American. Being of Irish decent, I would think that in all my years I would hear someone refer to themselves that way, but I haven't. I've also never heard anyone refer to themselves as russian-american, italian-american, german-american, english-american, bolivian-amercian, japanese-american, indian-american, canadian-american, polish-american, martian-american....etc, etc. "African-American" only exists because it's a PC term, and refers to race rather than nationality, and incidentally, gets improperly tagged onto those not even from America, much to their shagrin.
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You need to get out more
Google it sometime.
There is "Irish American" Magazine. (Its pretty good)
http://www.irishamerica.com/
A Irish American Heritage Society in the Windy City
http://www.irishamhc.com/
and most large cities have an Irish American Society or Club.
As do just about all the other groups that you mentioned.
The idea that we are all one big happy family that have adopted some sort of "American way" and given up or our history, customs, and traditions is as much a myth as anything. Same with the "Its a PC thing forced on us."