Posted on 06/17/2018 9:02:46 AM PDT by rktman
"Native American" is an offensive term, not to the people who it is used to describe, but everyone else born in the United States. The term "Native American" implies the rest of us aren't Native American. Most Americans are in fact native, meaning we were born here or to American parents. Having a group of Americans called "Native Americans" seems to delegitimize the rest of us, putting us on a lower moral grounds than the "Natives".
The term "Native Americans" is also ridiculous in that ancestors of these individuals were present before America was formed.
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I’ll never forget the news media screw up when, when a black South African visited the USA. The news media referred to him as “An African-American from South Africa.”
Agreed.
Everybody once “stole” their land from somebody else.
Get over it.
Yeah you bet! Let’s first get rid of all hyphenated Americans.
I honestly don’t think the “native” label will ever go away. I see “Native Pride” signs and hear about it all the time here in Alaska.
Hey, if it’s a money maker they’re gonna use it.
I answer all surveys as a
“native American”.
I put other “human”.
Wouldn’t make more sense for citizens of this country who were born in Africa to be called African Americans, rather than people who never set foot in Africa? Think Charlize Theron or Elon Musk rather than So Sharpton.
when a black South African visited the USA. The news media referred to him as “An African-American from South Africa.
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How about the ‘rolled eyes etc’ when a WHITE naturalized American born in Kenya checks out the ‘African American’ box....
Could be a great lawsuit, right up there with ALL figuring ‘Jesus Montoya’ is automatically from ‘South of Texas’ even though born in the Bronx.
First words out of clerks mouth are “WTF!!, then SECURITY”
I guess it turns out Elizabeth Warren really is a Native American then - although for a host of other reasons she should still be disqualified.
Actually, the politically correct term in Canada is ‘first nations’. As it has been in use for 20+ years, it is likely time for the liberals to come up with a new term.
One of my buddies son married an African American. ;-)
I never use the term Native American except to describe myself or others I know to be native born.
What to call the Apache, Navajo, Comanche etc?
They are properly termed Aboriginals.
American is a term applied by a group of colonizing settlers and did not incorporate the Aboriginals they found when first settling.
What do you call a Brit who has African or island ancestry? What do you want to be called? Some AA friends here really do want whites to call them AA. So what do you call someone from England? I use black, if I am describing their looks. African Brit doesn’t seem to work.
Also, I am literally offended by how my own group is described in the USA officially. There is only one caste here on school official documents that is an actual COLOR. There is a list for my local public school registry with about 10 different varieties of “race.” EVERY SINGLE ONE IS A GEOGRAPHICAL CATEGORY. Except mine, at the end: white. If every other category is ancestral relating to geography, why am I not a European American?
It is indeed an offensive term to many of them. As one explained to me, it's like if Russia invaded and conquered us, renamed the country something like New Russia, and then referred to us officially as Native New Russians.
I’ve never used the term “Native Americans” so I cannot stop using it.
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If it comes up I may say Indian and when ‘quizical’ look appears just say, “oh, I mean the bow & arrow kind”
I knew a couple of Detectives who used to describe the various 7/11 clerks as Push Start or Pull Start...
Of course go to a ‘nice’ reservation and interview the ‘NON ‘fake’ owners of the casinos etc’ and ask them if they think a WALL and armed guards should have greeted the Mayflower.
Then again, it is the ONLY life they have ever known so would imagine a ‘no comment’ would be in order.
UNLIKE the modern day Black Americans who have had the slavery issue drummed into their head so much that many feel they should kill todays US Whites when NEITHER had anything to do with it.
And, Sorry, in many (not all) it appears that is the ONLY part of their education that took hold.....
I’ve been saying this for 20 years! I use the term aboriginal Americans but I also add that even the Injuns are immigrants.
I’ve been saying this for 20 years! I use the term aboriginal Americans but I also add that even the Injuns are immigrants.
I’m trying to remember exactly the mistake a couple of Olympics ago when a reporter kept referring to a Canadian (I think) athlete of Caribbean ancestry (I think) as “African-American”. He had to correct her like five times in six minutes. I’m not remembering the details correctly enough to be able to find it now.
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