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Dec 19 '06 by hellothere

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RACE QUESTION!!

But I doubt its controversial.

If you wanted to refer to someone who was of Indian heritage (as in ancestors from India) but was born in the US, could you call them "American-Indians" or would people think you were talking about Native Americans?

Its for an English essay.

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Skipper6745 on Dec 19 '06 at 8:47pm

I think you can call them Americans. People who live in America are Americans, not Indian-Americans, not African-Americans. I'll only refer to someone with the hybrid name if they were actually born in that country, otherwise they're American.

I don't ask to be called European American, even though my ancestors most likely came from Europe.

Skipper6745 on Dec 19 '06 at 8:47pm

I didn't help at all.

melissa2389 on Dec 19 '06 at 8:48pm

American born Indian?
Indian-American?

hellothere on Dec 19 '06 at 8:49pm

Yeah, its important for the essay that I somehow mention that they are of Indian heritage, but as succinctly as possible.

radiostaticstar on Dec 19 '06 at 8:49pm

Indian Americans...

hellothere on Dec 19 '06 at 8:49pm

Indian-American makes way more sense . . . thank you, I knew something was wrong.

hellothere on Dec 19 '06 at 8:50pm

Sorry, my brain is completely fried.

Larlar on Dec 19 '06 at 8:50pm

Skipper6745 on Dec 19 '06 at 8:47pm
I didn't help at all.

But you have the only possible non-asinine answer.

melissa2389 on Dec 19 '06 at 8:50pm

Skipper, I live in American.
but I was born in Canada and I have a Canadian and Polish citizenship.
You can't call me American can you?

maddingo on Dec 19 '06 at 8:51pm

i believe that people would generally say American of Indian decent

or Indian American

much like I am an American of Transylvanian decent

stooopid Columbus and his mistaking America for India....sigh

Skipper6745 on Dec 19 '06 at 8:51pm

I can call you that if you want, or I can call you Canadian-American because you were actually born there.

But do people really say 'Polish- or Canadian-American'? Why is no special attention given to smaller groups?

maddingo on Dec 19 '06 at 8:52pm

** Descent (god damn lack of spelling skillz)

hellothere on Dec 19 '06 at 8:53pm

True, Columbus was none to wise, nautically speaking.

hellothere on Dec 19 '06 at 8:53pm

*too

damn

melissa2389 on Dec 19 '06 at 8:54pm

I'd rather be called Polish-Canadian. And from hence forth you shall refer to me as such.
Got it!?

No one cares about the smaller groups. : (

gordond on Dec 19 '06 at 8:54pm

so...

how did they refer to this country?

did the *insert proper name here* have a name for this country as a whole?

that's my big question.

hellothere on Dec 19 '06 at 9:00pm

gordond on Dec 19 '06 at 8:54pm
so...

how did they refer to this country?

Which country is this?

Laborpsus on Dec 19 '06 at 9:24pm

I'm Indian-American

I was born in America, but my parents are Indian.

Native Americans are whiny illiterate alcoholics with no work ethic.

Or so I've not been taught.

Laborpsus on Dec 19 '06 at 9:25pm

Seriously though, they got owned.

jNINE on Dec 19 '06 at 9:27pm

My ancestry is from India.. they moved to New Zealand.. and at first were Indian but soon became New Zealanders...and had kids... and then I came around... a New Zealander.. then I moved to Australia, where for a while I was a New Zealander living in Australia.... now I'm just Australian! (except when the rugby is on... then I'm a kiwi)

Laborpsus on Dec 19 '06 at 9:30pm

but really I have nothing against the NAs.

...but dat's what happens when you don't domesticate plants n' animals (usually the env't's fault). You don't develop technology, and you won't form a complex society.

hellothere on Dec 19 '06 at 9:35pm

I think the smallpox blankets and our greed helped them along their path to destruction.

Laborpsus on Dec 19 '06 at 9:38pm

I had nothing to do with your white devilry. ;)

My greed only earns a few extra STPs a year. I didn't perform cultural genocide.

BaconJesus on Dec 19 '06 at 9:38pm

Ha! Asinine!

Laborpsus on Dec 19 '06 at 9:38pm

I agree

lenabeana on Dec 19 '06 at 9:38pm

injuns!

lenabeana on Dec 19 '06 at 9:39pm

just like in the grapes of wrath.. ahh fambly.

hellothere on Dec 19 '06 at 9:39pm

Or Tom Sawyer!

Laborpsus on Dec 19 '06 at 9:40pm

what's your essay on?

Stevethegreat on Dec 19 '06 at 9:40pm

I wasn't in this country when that was happening

I was out in the fields of Ireland eating my damn potatoes

PinkSabbath on Dec 19 '06 at 9:41pm

must....resist.....racial....slurs....

hellothere on Dec 19 '06 at 9:42pm

Interpreter of Maladies (ie short stories about Indian-Americans)

Laborpsus on Dec 19 '06 at 9:43pm

bolding my origins is a bit patronizing

OH MY GOD

MACACA MACACA MACACA

squirelbabies on Dec 19 '06 at 9:44pm

yawn*

hellothere on Dec 19 '06 at 9:45pm

yeah, I just figure everyone is as clueless as me and needs things spelled out for them, no offense meant

also: George Allen is such a gem.

Luigi Mansion on Dec 19 '06 at 9:58pm

you call-a dem brown.

MarioCastle on Dec 19 '06 at 10:03pm

i woulda say "that-a guy over ther"

gordond on Dec 19 '06 at 10:04pm

right. i'm dumb.

how did the native americans refer to america back in the day - or even now?

hellothere on Dec 19 '06 at 10:10pm

Oh!

Thats actually a good question, and now you've got me thinking about language, which is making it even more difficult for me to finish this essay.

hadaloo on Dec 19 '06 at 10:13pm

Rachel, I love beauty pageants.

hadaloo on Dec 19 '06 at 10:13pm

Miss Greater Kansas City.

hadaloo on Dec 19 '06 at 10:14pm

DAMN WRONG ONE.

There.

hadaloo on Dec 19 '06 at 10:15pm

I would be SO HOT in Missouri.

hadaloo on Dec 19 '06 at 10:15pm

PS The first one looks like a cyborg.

hellothere on Dec 19 '06 at 10:15pm

Incest takes its ugly toll.

TheStacyPuff on Dec 19 '06 at 10:21pm

haha I'm from St. Louis. Not eveyrone is that um, unattractive in Missouri. I was trying to be nice but that girl really looks like she fell off the ugly tree and hit her face on all the ugly sticks and branches on the fall down

rudra on Dec 19 '06 at 10:25pm

...but dat's what happens when you don't domesticate plants n' animals (usually the env't's fault). You don't develop technology, and you won't form a complex society.

that's just what the history books say... and look who wrote them....

there's actually quite a lot of proof to the contrary ;)

to answer the original question:

I believe the current PC term is "Asian Indians in America" or "x-generation Asian Indians in America", etc.

hellothere on Dec 19 '06 at 10:25pm

Miss Gretchen would almost be alright, if you were able to ignore her bangs . . . which I can't.

Monsieur Hulot on Dec 19 '06 at 10:28pm

Hey laydees! Read this and take heed:
Condoms 'too big' for Indian men

rudra on Dec 19 '06 at 10:29pm

gordond: you shouldn't confuse the issue - but there were hundreds of independent nations with their own languages - they tended to (in general) refer to areas by who lived there (although that's really oversimplifying things)

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