Thank you all for the answers, I understand that political correctness much more ingrained in Americans than in Russians to speak more freely about it.
These are interesting details rockzmom, that changes are appalling for rather a short period of time!
I hope this wouldn't be an uncosy question. There are numbers of whites in the USA - 72.4% but as I get it they have lumped there in Hispanics, Arabs, Pakistanis ... Could you tell you think how many nearly white Europeans there are? Of course there is no strict boundaries for that but what is your perceiving of it?