With the news that, for the first time in U.S. history, the majority of American babies are not white, it should put to rest use of the term "minorities" as a reference to America’s black, Latino, Asian and Native American residents. Nearly 30 years ago, I learned to think of myself as a person of color, and that shift changed my view of myself and my relationship to the people around me. It is time for the entire nation, and our media in particular, to make the same move. I am an Indian immigrant, and became a citizen in 1987. My family came to the States in 1972 when I was five, just seven years after Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which removed bans on Asian immigration. My father was a metallurgical engineer and we lived in predominantly white factory towns in New York and Pennsylvania. All I ever wanted was to be fully American. But everything around me, from the population to the television, taught me that being American meant being white. **[READ THE FULL ESSAY AT CNN’S "IN AMERICA" BLOG.](http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/18/opinion-minorities-try-people-of-color/)**