Yes, it’s clear that when you put the word ‘fighting’ in from of someone like ‘Fighting Irish,’ or the ‘Fighting Fifth’ or just about 1,000 other examples, mainly from warfare - man’s most traditionally popularly heroic endeavor - it’s intended to demean. Give me a break, but why fight it? Why not just change it to the ‘Fighting Anglo-Saxons,’ and just forget about the natives who would rather be ‘respected’ in obscurity than celebrated in popular culture.