Open Forum Decisions

     Regarding ethnicity, all people worldwide belong to one or more ethnic groups; and ethnic groups are usually initially viewed as monolithic.  Monolithic can be defined as massive, solid, uniform, whole, a worldwide movement.  Ethnicity is a less loaded term than race, and can be defined as a segment of a larger society whose members are thought, by themselves and/or others, to have a common origin and who share important segments of a common culture.
     In the United States, for example, although the media now often refer to African-Americans as being the nation's second largest minority group, this is misleading.  In reality, African-Americans are perhaps the nation's largest or second largest ethnicity, surpassing the other six largest ethnic groups; English-Americans (e.g., politician Hillary Rodham Clinton; actress Tuesday Weld, being examples of), Irish-Americans (e.g., priest and author Reverend Dr. Andrew M. Greeley; business guru Jack Welch), Mexican-Americans (e.g.,  boxer Oscar de la Hoya; journalist Maria Hinojosa). Italian-Americans (e.g., politician Rudy Giuliani; author Gay Talese), Cuban-Americans (e.g., singer Gloria Estefan; actress Eva Mendes) and German-Americans (e.g., news anchorperson Keith Olbermann; actress Sandra Bullock).