I went to High School with him, and he did claim that his grandfather was an American Indian, and none of us had any reason to doubt it, so I would say “Grandfather clause” would definitely apply.
On the Origin of Species (Darwin, 1859).
What is that supposed to mean? Most number of different species per unit area? If that’s the case, then the Budapest Zoo probably has an even greater biodiversity, but I wouldn’t use that as an argument for its inhabitants being native to Budapest.
Your objection to the claim that Native Americans are “native” appears to be based on the fact that they migrated there from elsewhere some number n years ago. Provided you set n high enough, the same can be said of any other population of organisms currently found on the earth. Plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and other life forms are constantly evolving and migrating. Name any species of organism currently existing in Brazil (or anywhere else) and I guarantee you that there was a point in time when it could not be found there.
What I find offensive is the division of our population by these labels.
I’m the person who, when I got my 2010 census form, and had to indicate my race, checked “Other” and penciled in “human”
Can’t we be proud of our various backgrounds without making hateful or divisive? Or is being politically correct more important?
The census form is making people hateful and divisive?
One of the definitions in the cite you provided would indicate that they are indeed Native Americans.
Remember, nigger is also just a corrupted pronunciation of the term Negro. It being a corrupted pronunciation is irrelevant to its offensiveness status.
And the poster in question was allowed to make several similar remarks before he even got his first Warning. When someone consistently uses derogatory terms, it forms a pattern that leads one to believe it is hate speech, even if, in isolation, the term isn’t that bad.
I will admit I have no idea how offensive that word is to the American Indian population. I do know that most prefer not to be called Native Americans, though.
I don’t think that’s the case. My understanding is that the majority considers the term “Native Americans” fine, but that a majority use the term “American Indians” more often.
I think I had a point. That hate speech isn’t allowed in a forum designed specifically for that.
Me too, for a 2011 census and for forms and questionnaires generally. I got yet another census form last week and this time to my pleasant surprise there weren’t any questions on race.
So it’s more like what most black people think of African American? Well that’s what I get from learning what’s offensive to American Indians from some white guy. Have I mentioned that I live in one of the most non-racially diverse locations in the country (unless you count Latino as a race)?
Oh, and I think I opened this thread a long time ago, and left it open in a tab, and didn’t realize all the posts that had went on in the mean time. I still think it’s good advice for thinking about the general topic though, even if it doesn’t really apply to this specific incident.
There seems to be a movement now for Native Americans to disfavor any kind of collective term, preferring any reference to their ethnicity be to their particular tribes/nations.
A friend who is native American (or native indian, or whatever has been decided on by this thread) will describe herself as being 1/4 Rosebud Sioux.