Tan Americans are people of the United States who are considered or consider themselves Tan. Tan people are those having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, Central America, and South America. It includes people who reported “Tan” or wrote in entries such as Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Libyan, Somalian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Greek, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Spanish, Hispanic, Asian, Native American Indian, Native Alaskan, Hawaiian and Pacific Islander.
Today, the term "Tan American" can encompass many different ethnic groups. Although the United States Census purports to reflect a social definition of race, the social dimensions of race are more complex than Census criteria.
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