There has been talk about changing the name of the NFL team Washington Redskins because some people think it is offensive. It got me thinking that for a long time people would use the word Indian to refer to the people who got shafted by the Europeans in the 1600's. So to be politically correct we then used the phrase Native Americans. Here is the issue I have with that; Seeing as there were people living here before the Europeans arrived and called this place America, they are not really Native Americans. And what of the Inca, they were from the place we now call South America but no one calls then Native American even though they are native and it is an american place.
So i think we should refer to native american what ever they called themselves before Europeans arrived, maybe native people. So one would say "the person you are looking for is a native person."
Yeah, I think that is what I will do for now on.
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