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Mascot name changed from Indians to something else
auzman466:
name the team the whites for "equality"
Cappytaino:
--- Quote from: Nonnel on February 16, 2017, 01:03:08 AM ---i think he means that it's impractical because the word "indian" is already a word for a completely different race
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Indian-American and American Indian are two different things
Tactical Nuke:
polls taken from Native Americans by the Washington Post have shown that about 90% of them don't give a stuff about the Washington Redskins' name
https://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2016/05/19/National-Politics/Polling/release_424.xml?tid=a_inl
knowing that, this seems like another thing that was completely overblown by leftists
sir dooble:
--- Quote from: Cappytaino on February 16, 2017, 01:29:43 AM ---Indian-American and American Indian are two different things
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They're talking about Indian-Indians from India.
It's confusing to describe Native Americans as 'Indians' because that is the only name for people from India.
Yeah, context is key too, as if you're talking about the Indian Reservation it's probably not full of New Delhi migrants. But on the internet (where we perhaps do most of our communicating) the term 'Indian' is confusing to pretty much all non-North Americans. To use the word for both groups makes it too ambiguous.