Eskimo:Inuit ... Gypsy:Roma ... Pygmy: ?

[DrDeth]

@Derleth

Keep in mind that whatever you do, someone will get offended. Ignore them and move on.

Right- there are no “racial” terms that are not offensive to some people.

[Malacandra]

@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.

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 "fcking 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 fcking haoles.

Ass haoles?