Yeah, in Canada it has reached a point where it's beyond ridiculous, but it's been like that for as long as I can remember. That's actually something that struck me when I was in the U.S...you'd ask folks of foreign descent where they're from, and they'd say: America. Try this in Canada, and even the caucasian folks will come up with some bullshit answer like Irish, British, French, Italian, Portuguese, or whatever, because their grandmother on one side of the family was half Irish, British, French, Italian, Portuguese, or whatever.
I had a coworker in 2014 who was of Italian descent, and he'd just always say he's Italian. Then one day I asked him if he'd ever gone to Italy, and nope. The guy was in his fucking fifties, yet he'd never stepped foot in Italy, but he's Italian. This is the fruit of the country's deeply rooted "multiculturalism". A country with no clear identity, no clear values and traditions, and no pride whatsoever.
And let me be clear, this isn't the immigrants' fault. Decades of shitty policies watered this down to a point of no return.