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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
As a West Indian who grew up delineating myself from the East Indians, I look at the unadjectived Indian and my brain does a spinny thing.
My East Indian friends self identified as "brown" to avoid confusion with the Mi'kmaqs. (Or Micmacs, as they were known at the time.)
Oh Allyson, when will you learn? You are way too fucking competent for your own good.
I, on the other hand, am here to prove that even a smidge of competence will help hide a considerable amount of incompetence.
Also? I am here to grade, but you wouldn't know it.
To make it even more fun, the term "Alaskan Native" is used in Alaska, and it encompasses the Native American tribes (Athabascan, Haida, Tlinglit, etc.), the Aleut, and the Inuit/Yupik (un-PC term - Eskimo).
I think the problem is that all the words are fraught with trying to group all Native North Americans in one group, when they identify with their own specific communities.
Yup, this.
The word Indian seems to be consider pretty perjorative in Canada. And so does aboriginal, but in this province we have an office of Aboriginal Affairs, and I took a workshop "Aboriginal Perceptions" last year from the Diversity Management Advisor in our dept., who happens to be Mi'kmaq.
that may be a throwback to history, kind of like the NAACP. It is now kind of offensive to refer to someone as "colored", but when the NAACP was formed, people had fought hard for the right.
Is that the name has not been changed? As a sort of homage to the Civil Rights fight, for lack of a better word?
Is that the name has not been changed?
are we missing a "the reason"? or a why?
I guess not...I was just wondering since the term "colored" has negative connotations.
I guess not...I was just wondering since the term "colored" has negative connotations.Aimee, I think you missed a question word in your question, and that's what Vortex meant. Did you mean to ask something along the lines of: Is that [the reason or why] the name has not been changed?
(That is, the wording of your question was "Is that the name has not been changed?")
YES! Duh.
Hi, I'm Aimee and this is exactly the reason I am taking writing classes. Also an idiot.
Is that the reason WHY it has not been changed?
That's just stupid fingers, Aimee. I get them all the time. I know the difference between their/they're/there quite well, but my fingers go too fast, or something.
Also, when I'm editing, I tend to leave in/out words that make the whole new thing (which I think is so much better than my first attempt) make no sense at all.
Fortunately, most of you are all messed up on Fernet all the time.