<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">>>Ultimately I prefer to be called "Mike." If we could remember to call<br>people by their names rather than by labels all these problems could<br>
be easily avoided.<<</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Agreed. Except that if you're not the one giving yourself or your cultural or ethnic group the label, that's when it becomes a problem. I expect Americans didn't even start off calling themselves Americans. Likely the British came up with it first. Probably because coach potato was already taken. By Canadians. :)</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Darren</span></font></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Mike Dougherty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com">msd001@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
2010/11/9 Darren Greer <<a href="mailto:darren.greer3@gmail.com">darren.greer3@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> It's not so much the generalized term that people are using, but what that<br>
> generalized term means and where it comes from. Inuit means "our people"<br>
> from a Northern Indigenous tribal dialect. Eskimo means "eater of raw flesh"<br>
> from the Cree, who are incontestibly not Eskimo or Inuit. Nit-picking aside,<br>
> I can see that the objections to the first might be greater than the second.<br>
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</div>Likewise I take offense at being called a Typical American to mean<br>
"eater of junk food while watching TV."<br>
I think the colloquial "Couch Potato" is more appropriate for that<br>
particular meaning. :)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> But the term Eskimo is (or almost is) universally culturally offensive, as<br>
> far as I know. And this biggest nit-pick of all? I stated the term Eskimo<br>
> was cultural offensive, and bet even the Yupik and (I know the Innui) find<br>
> it so. It is best when dealing with tribes who don't identify with the "Our<br>
> People's" designation to ask them what they prefer to be called, instead of<br>
> assuming "eater of raw flesh" is OK.<br>
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</div>Ultimately I prefer to be called "Mike." If we could remember to call<br>
people by their names rather than by labels all these problems could<br>
be easily avoided.<br>
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