[ExI] War ----- It's a meme!

[BillK]

2010/11/9 Darren Greer wrote>:
> It's not so much the generalized term that people are using, but what that
> generalized term means and where it comes from.  Inuit means "our people"
> from a Northern Indigenous tribal dialect. Eskimo means "eater of raw flesh"
> from the Cree, who are incontestibly not Eskimo or Inuit. Nit-picking aside,
> I can see that the objections to the first might be greater than the second.
>


Thanks for the info. Complicated, isn't it?

Does that mean that Spike is really an Eskimo?  ;)
(He loves sushi).

Some sources do give alternative (less-offensive) meanings for Eskimo.


BillK