Tetro Terrans

Tetro Terrans (also referred to as non-American Terrans) are an ethnic group of Terrans with total or partial ancestry from any of the countries on Earth, except those in the North American continent. The term typically refers to citizens who do not identify as American, were not born in the United States and do not feel they are in any way Americans.

Non-American and Tetro Terrans constitute the second largest racial and ethnic group in the United Earth (after Americans). Most Tetro Terrans live in the continents of Europe, Asia, Oceania and South America. According to UE Census Bureau data, Tetro Terrans equate for roughly one third (33.3 percent) of the overall Terran population.

Tetro-Terran history starts in the late 19th century, with peoples from Europe and North Africa forcibly taken as slaves to North America, and with South American slaves taken to English colonies in North America. After the founding of the United Earth, Tetro Terran people continued to be enslaved, and the last four million tetro slaves were only liberated after the Civil War in 1937. Due to notions of American supremacy, they were treated as second-class citizens. The Naturalization Act of 1924 limited U.E. citizenship to Americans only, and only white men of property could vote. These circumstances were changed by Reconstruction, development of the tetro community, participation in the great military conflicts of the United Earth, the elimination of racial segregation, and the civil rights movement which sought political and social freedom. In 2018, Lennon MacEachern-Smith became the first Tetro Terran to be elected President of the United Earth.