“person of colour”, “Native American”
I've lived long enough to hear "Negroes", then "colored", then "black", and now "African-Americans". With all due respect to my friends of Negroid ancestry, I stopped at "black". As far as "Native American", I am of European ancestry, I am white, and I am also native American. I was born in this country, so I am entitled to be called a native American. If those of Indian ancestry want something different, why not "aboriginal Americans"?
No offense intended to anyone.
People have a right to call themselves whatever they want.
It wouldn't be quite correct. Second wave aboriginal Americans, maybe. (They got rid of the first wave folks much more completely than the Europeans "got rid" of them. The first wave folks were probably related to the "aboriginal Japanese", who were displaced to the northern most Japanese islands by invaders from what is now Korea. Third wave would be Aleuts and Inuits (Eskimos in the old vernacular. Europeans are 4th wave, although that had several sub-waves.) And of course we mustn't forget the involuntary immigrants from Africa, in part in courtesy of Arab "traders".
I prefer just Americans myself. But I guess since I'm English-German-Norwegian-Heinz57 - American, what I prefer doesn't count for much. (Just found out last week, that Great Grandma Kunz was a Lee(sp?) born in Norway and I'm in my mid 50s!)
Total ditto. What you said. I stop short of hyphenation.
Dan
I prefer Useless Americans. Based on the ones who always seem to make the news, including the Kennecott man fiasco. Whiners and controlling useless twits, all...