[thechat] Welcome to the Free World and have a nice day!

[Erika Meyer]

"Native American" is a generic government-created term supposed to be 
more accurate (and it is, I guess). "American Indian" is still in 
common use, especially amongst American Indians.

BTW, my daughter went to a Ananda Margda Hindu-ish pre-school where 
she was not allowed to bring meat or eggs in her lunch.  Apparently 
someone told her that in India, people don't eat meat...

One day she came home and said to me out of the blue.
"I'm a *real* Indian.  And *real* Indians eat meat."

See what happens when you let some crazy colonizer make up the rules 
for everybody?

Erika


>At 02:24 AM 27-03-03, Erika Meyer wrote:
>>The following is a American Injun email joke.  Probably not as 
>>funny nor as "real" to non-Indians.
>
>Indians? What have *we* done?
>
>Oh, not people like me then?
>
>Don't they say "Native American" these days? :p
>
>Madhu

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