I'm going to anger some people but here I go anyway. I don't like being called indigenous just call me native american.

@Human1000 I thought Latin was a 'dead language'

@KiwiBird Australian Natives are called Aboriginals..

@Adstar I am not saying they are not called Aboriginal however I watch enough NITV to see it is being used less and less and the descriptives of Indigenous and more recently First Nations are more woke. Most of the mob in my area the Barngarla people actually prefer using Aboriginal as a descriptor.

@KiwiBird Any name given apart from a tribal description eg ""Koori"" or ""Awabical"" will end up being called racist by victim narrative peoples.. Because that's the way they have a sense of power over others.. If you want to cancel someone you dislike just accuse them of being racist for calling you native or Aboriginal.. The problem in Australia is that there is near on 500 different tribes so anyone will have trouble getting the tribal name correct and because of that they will be called racist.. So the best thing to do is avoid talking to them or associating with them because you want to avoid saying something racist.. But then of course avoiding them and having nothing to do with them will be seen as being more racist then calling them the wrong name..

Oh and just wait and see when you will be called racist for referring to a tribe as a ""[c=7700B2]Mob[/c]"" that's a term used to describe a heard of animals.. So by calling them a Mob you are actually calling them animals how racists is that.. 😱

@Adstar The Barngarla Nation call themselves the local mob....and I assure you they are not calling themselves animals.

You wouldn't use 'Koori' around here.....that is from southern NSW and Victoria and encompasses many different Aboriginal Nations.

The Aboriginal the southern Australia are called 'Nunga' and also comprises many different Aboriginal Nations.

@KiwiBird [quote]The Barngarla Nation call themselves the local mob....and I assure you they are not calling themselves animals. [/quote]

Of course not because it is not a racist term... But it will become a racist tern when white australians say it.. Just like in the USA when afican americans call each other the N word.. But if a white guy calls them the N word the shite will hit the fan..

@Adstar I use that term a lot when asking an Aboriginal person where they are from....and it is not seen as racist and I don't have an Aboriginal blood line. The actual question Where are you from is a lot more sensitive....because a lot of them don't know due to the White Australian Policies that were in vogue for much of the last century. A lot of children whose Mother's were 'stolen' have no idea where their tribal roots are.

@KiwiBird [quote] A lot of children whose Mother's were 'stolen' have no idea where their tribal roots are.[/quote]


Well that could be fixed quickly by a DNA test these days.. looked up the price just under 500 dollars.. And i am sure aboriginals could make some kind of claim from the government and get tested for free or at a subsidized price..

@Adstar Very unlikely there is a database for as you say over 500 different Aboriginal Nations.

@KiwiBird Very unlikely too because it is inherently an extremely inaccurate "test" based on sweeping generalising.

Its scientific aspect gives DNA origin testing a spurious sense of reliability for the wrong purpose. It can show descent from dead individuals, or links to living ones, but not native region or country.

That is largely because we are so far removed genetically from our own ancestors even only four hundred years - perhaps 16 generations - ago.

Each pairing of an organism produces offspring having only about half of each of its parent's genetic identity, so the sequence is by the power of 2.

Given 16 generations, we each have only 1/(2^16) of the genetic identity of our ancestors those 4 centuries ago, even if we prove continuous, reliable familial records from them. And where did those people live, whence did they originate? Or their own ancestors another 400 years earlier still, 1/(2^32) genes from us?

We can trace our [i]families[/i] over centuries if the records exist, and DNA tests famously linked a living person to the 15C, King Richard III (assuming the skeleton was identified correctly) ; but pure biochemistry does not prove our regional or national origins long ago.

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Distressingly, such commercial DNA origin tests have been seized on by a few ignorant racists to "prove" their racial "purity". If it supposedly does they are cock-a-hoop; if not they allege a faulty test rather than admit their childish prejudices.