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Europeans Are Not White People. Please Americans Don't Insult Them By Calling Them That.
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Anonymous Coward |
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No one is denying the evolution of words but one must understand their Origin as well. I do not call Natives Indians as it is a direct insult.
I find that they are not insulted to be called Native Americans however.
Civilization takes work. You have to care enough to know.
The word Indian to describe Natives will never "Evolve"
And "White" was created by English Slave Masters to denote their property and to manipulate them just as they do today with the designation. There is zero evolution involved.
You have just been made ignorant of history to control you.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12302397 You seem to contradict yourself. The term Indian has indeed evolved to encompass the natives. Not only in English, but in Spanish and Portuguese as well (indio). And there are some Natives who prefer Indian over "Native American," because "American" (derived from Amerigo Vespucci) emphasizes the white man's conquest of the New World. And what the term white man has come to mean is also part of this linguistic evolution.
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