# Eskimo:Inuit ... Gypsy:Roma ... Pygmy: ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 3, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eskimo-inuit-gypsy-roma-pygmy/451575 "2008-06-03T02:30:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eskimo-inuit-gypsy-roma-pygmy/451575/21 "2008-06-04T02:58:31Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] Keep in mind that whatever you do, someone will get offended. Ignore them and move on. [/QUOTE] Right- there are no “racial” terms that are not offensive to some people. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eskimo-inuit-gypsy-roma-pygmy/451575/22 "2008-06-04T12:21:07Z")
[QUOTE=even sven] Each tribe/ethnic group has a name and generally prefers to be called that (though “pygmy” isn’t considered horribly offensive and some will self-identify as “pygmy”) In Southern Cameroon they called themselves the Baka people. [/QUOTE] Which is all very well unless the term’s applied to them by a Japanese-speaker. 🙂 > [@Attack from the 3rd dimension](#): > > In Hawai’i, people of European ancestry are commonly referred to as Haoles, which can be an ethnic identifier, or a racist slur, depending. There was a case a year or so ago in which two local guys beat up two haole tourists, calling them "f_cking haoles" as they did so. The local guys claimed that it wasn’t a racist term, since they were beating them up not because they WERE in fact haoles, but rather that they were ACTING like f_cking haoles. Ass haoles? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eskimo-inuit-gypsy-roma-pygmy/451575.md?page=1)