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The box used to have the full lady on it, instead of just her top half. You could do this neat trick.
How do I add text in… nevermind, got it.
In high school, my friends & I got really stoned after our band performed one night.
We mocked up some NASA letterhead, pulled out the phone book, & proceeded to create dozens of signed & sealed official correspondence from the space agency.
Every letter read:
Dear Jerry,
You’ll never be an astronaut.
Love, NASA
…now I kinda want to do that with this butter box trick. Just randomly select a dozen or so mailing addresses & send them one of these with no other explanation.
Indian?
Many native Americans have adopted the group name “Indian”. You might not like it, but they do.
Seems like a lot of people have opinions on what they’ve interpreted as my opinion 🤷♀️I’m not even American 😬
I don’t mean this to attack anyone that commented. Seems like I’ve sparked a good discussion. As an instance admin I can see who has voted on posts and literally no one voting on my comment left a reply :-)
Sometimes people will down vote a comment because they agree with a contrary reply above it. I don’t like the way people punish people for asking
Sorry if I misinterpreted your question mark as indicating you questioned the use of the term ;)
When the early European colonizers arrived in the Americas (Christopher Columbus and those who followed), they thought they had circumnavigated the globe and arrived in the lands east of India (which were referred to as East Indies at the time).
So, that’s why they referred to the indigenous people of the Americas as “Indians” and the name stuck.
TL;DW: they want to be called Indian.
The ones that do, do; the ones that don’t, don’t.
Yeah, even the actual sentiment of the video is more like, “it’s not great but it’s the name that stuck and there’s solidarity behind it.”
The problem, as always, is lumping people together when they didn’t ask to be. Most of the newer, more “politically correct” terms are even more generic and alienating, and, once again, being forced on them from outside.
Ehhhh my friends told me they prefer indigenous or native. To many, “Indian” is a slur.
It’s a person by person thing and I suspect age plays a large part in feelings towards the term. In general I would say avoid the term unless it is requested.
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