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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
As opposed to American Indian? Although I still wouldn't know if they refer to Native Americans or American-born Indians. Especially if an European said that because in many countries Indian means Native American.
Adstar · 56-60, M
@CrazyMusicLover The early explorers of the Americas called the natives Indians because initially the explorers thought they had reached India.. Later even when they discovered it was not India they kept on calling them Indians because most of the European financiers of the expeditions financed the expeditions because they wanted to have a better trade route to India.. In the end the name just stuck.. But it was founded on a mistake and then on a scam..
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@Adstar I know, it surprises me it got stuck for so long and still nobody cares to correct it.
Adstar · 56-60, M
@CrazyMusicLover Well correct it how? The native Americans never had one language, They never had unified term to describe themselves.. They had their personal names and their tribes name.. Ironically India did not have a united name until the European imperial powers decided to call it India and the people Indians.. Same goes with the names of the continents, all named by Europeans because the natives of those countries where never united to the point of coming up with accepted names for the continents they lived on..
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@Adstar Like they did in English. Now it's natural to say Native Americans and everyone knows who you refer to as a group. But we don't need it linguistically because Indián means Native American and Ind means Indian.
Adstar · 56-60, M
@CrazyMusicLover
Well it is better to say Native American because if you say Indian you risk confusion.. Some will hear Indian and think of dark skinned people living in India and others will think of natives of North or South America.. It's ironic that the woke insist on using the term Native American while they condemn to tern Indian as being somehow racist. when the term Native American is an English term derived from the same ""imperialists colonizers"" .. Ask a random native American and they might say I'm Cherokee or I'm Chinook or Navajo.. Maybe the woke fascists should ask the natives to have a convention of all the tribes in North America to produce a name they are all collectively happy with to describe themselves.. Instead of imposing culturally imperialists terms like ""native American"" LOL
@Adstar Like they did in English. Now it's natural to say Native Americans and everyone knows who you refer to as a group.
Well it is better to say Native American because if you say Indian you risk confusion.. Some will hear Indian and think of dark skinned people living in India and others will think of natives of North or South America.. It's ironic that the woke insist on using the term Native American while they condemn to tern Indian as being somehow racist. when the term Native American is an English term derived from the same ""imperialists colonizers"" .. Ask a random native American and they might say I'm Cherokee or I'm Chinook or Navajo.. Maybe the woke fascists should ask the natives to have a convention of all the tribes in North America to produce a name they are all collectively happy with to describe themselves.. Instead of imposing culturally imperialists terms like ""native American"" LOL