Re: sturdy old apple

[glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen)]

In article <BoidnbNZKtaFfZrcRVn-pQ@comcast.com>,
Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast DOT net> wrote:
>
>"Gregory L. Hansen" <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in
>message news:ce88pt$9if$1@hood.uits.indiana.edu...
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>: That's how it was when I was in San Jose.
>: There were whites, blacks, asians, and hispanics.
>
>These all describe a wide variance.
>
>White = anyone with very light pigmentation.
>Black = anyone with fairly dark pigmentation.
>Asian = people who are from the Asiatic region.
>Hispanic = those who speak Spanish as their primary language.
>
>: Nobody bothered to hyphenate each other, I suppose
>: because it takes too long to say.  My father's new
>: wife prefers Indian over Native American.
>
>Actually Native American is more correct than Indian.
>Indians are people from India. Being the traders thought
>they had landed in the West Indies, they decided to dub
>the people they found here, West Indians, and then shortened
>it to just, Indians. If you buy into the Bering Strate
>theory, they are probably originally Chinese, or Russian
>or a combination of cultures which cross-bred along the
>way.

Actually, anyone native to an America is a native American.  I was born 
in the U.S., that makes me a native American.  Everyone is native to 
somewhere, and I'm sure not native to Djibouti.

You could call her Ojibway or Anishinabe, but that's a specific culture.  
I don't think there is a single, unique name for pre-European Americans.  
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