A little late for Thanksgiving, but...

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(12-06-2016, 09:18 PM)Nately120 Wrote: During this Thanksgiving season I was accused (mostly jokingly) of being overly-PC when I referred to Native Americans, rather than Indians.  I've always done this, but I think people have been rather trained recently to seek out and mock behavior which they see as politically correct.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but why do we still say Indians?  At what point do we admit that Columbus landed in North America and not India?  People can say Indians to their heart's content, but I find it a bit odd/interesting that saying Native Americans is treated like some sort of left-wing guilt trip rather than, you know, admitting that we don't live in India.

Then again, maybe this is just one of those things we have gotten wrong for such a long time that we just roll with it.  Other examples:

calling Frankenstein's Monster Frankenstein
saying negative reinforcement when we really mean positive reinforcement of negative behavior
etc.

First off: Anybody that considered you overly-PC for using the term Native American , as opposed to Indian is just looking for something to complain about. Now if someone was corrected from saying Indian then the person correcting them were similarly just looking for something to be mad about.

Why is calling them Native Americans PC? As they were here before Amerigo Vespucci drew what he saw and earned the naming rights.