Re: American and British (English)

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:41:21 -0400, Chuck Riggs wrote
(in article <ffb694p3720amp5u9vtq8ftr4jl2ll0ksv@xxxxxxx>):

It is pointless to make a big fuss over whether they should be called
the one or the other, but I admit I'm surprised to learn that Purl
Girl prefers the older term. Good for her, I say, for not falling for
the more politically correct version.

As far as I know, the Indians never asked to be Native Americans, it was
paleface do-gooders who hung that on them.

The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs never changed
its name. The Smithsonian's newest museum, which is pretty much run by
and for the Indians, is called the National Museum of the American Indian
<http://www.nmai.si.edu/>.

--
John Varela
Trade NEW lamps for OLD for email.

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