sum1won wrote:guineawolf wrote:i am sorry,but i mean no offend!i just try to find an appropriate example for what i am thinking.Now it seems it was called amerindian,thanks for teaching.What do you mean not polite?
Its a term that is extremely similar (although Im not sure if it itself was used) to terms used by fontiersmen who were in conflict with them. As you can imagine, it carries some rather harsh connotations.
Don't get too bent up about it, there are worse phrases by far.
"Native American" is the currently fashionable phrase.
Speaking as someone who is both Cherokee and Blackfoot, I don't care. Red Indian is fine with me, since he is obviously just trying to avoid confusion with indian-subcontinent Indians, i.e. neighbors to the Pakistanis
I always thought Amerind or Amerindian sounded silly, but that's just me
The tragedy is what was
done to the aboriginal peoples of the americas, not what they were called. And the people responsible for that are long since dead and gone, so what's the big deal?