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

Darren Greer darren.greer3 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 9 23:03:31 UTC 2010


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

What little I know of Spike is from Exi. But based on that limited amount of
data, I think he probably defies easy categorization. :)

Darren

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:02 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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