Kindly fyck yourself with a rusty razorblade.
Sigh.
European used to have two meanings: an inhabitant of Europe/a white person (Europide in pre-WW2 Danish racial terminology). Then it became non-PC to use the second, but the social reality behind it didn't disappear.
Europe does have a native or aboriginal population (it is mixed with people from neighbouring regions, but so is the native population of Africa and Asia). Since a lot of people are offended by using European as a racial description (even if Asian and African are used as such - despite Asians being far more diverse than Europeans) you need to look for an alternative. How would you describe white culturally Christian/historically Christian people descended from the population living in Europe pre-1950? Native is not as accurate as aboriginal, but the latter sounds odd and is too connected to Australian aborigines.
It is frustrating when an obvious reality (the existence of a white pre-mass immigration population in Europe) can not be described and all labels are just considered "racist". It is no use pretending there is no us and them if the vast majority of people consider there to be one. White works in areas to which Europeans emigrated, but is odd in Europe itself. It feels odd saying White European, like it is odd for a Sub-Saharan African to describe himself as a Black African (unless used to contradict with North African) and weird for a Korean saying he is a Yellow or Brown Asian.
@ag: Your "tribe" is along with Romas one of the two historical outsider minorities in Europe. Far better integrated (and often fully assimilated) than Romas, of course. Askenazi Jews descended from people being in Europe for centuries are native Europeans since they are white and mostly assimilated. At some point large parts of present immigrants will of course be as well. Recently immigrated Sephardic Jews from North Africa are not native Europeans. In pre-Holocaust Europe categorization of Jews does not really matter in most contexts. France with its large partly Sephardic Jewish community is an exception.
To those that think terms like Native European are offensive, what is your non-derogatory/non-slur ("Aryan") alternative? Should it just be forbidden to refer to the majority population in Europe by any common label? (then you need to use a lot of stupid coded language, since it is a social reality)
I hope Americans understands why using white is odd in a European context.
Also, there are adopted children, people with mixed-race origin etc. and all sorts of exceptions. But just as national identies that were originally also ethnic labels (like Norwegian) can today both apply to the ethnic majority group and the whole population in the country (depending on context) it should be possible to use European in both ways - Native European would be a helpful qualifier.
