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I don't know why people keep busting out this kind of thing as though it's making a salient point. The word "Italian" is not insulting or inaccurate. Sorbetto is a food that's actually Italian.
I don't know why people keep busting out this kind of thing as though it's making a salient point. The word "Italian" is not insulting or inaccurate. Sorbetto is a food that's actually Italian.
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the word eskimo is not insulting or inaccurate, as it is a description of a group of people (and their language) indigenous people inhabiting northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and eastern Siberia,
1.
a member of an indigenous people inhabiting northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and eastern Siberia, traditionally living by hunting (especially of seals) and by fishing.
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either of the two main languages spoken by indigenous peoples of the Arctic (Inuit and Yupik), forming a major division of the Eskimo-Aleut family.
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the word eskimo is not insulting or inaccurate, as it is a description of a group of people (and their language) indigenous people inhabiting northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and eastern Siberia,
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The original meaning meaning of a word doesn't matter. If a word offends someone, it's an offensive word.
the word eskimo is not insulting or inaccurate, as it is a description of a group of people (and their language) indigenous people inhabiting northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and eastern Siberia,
1.
a member of an indigenous people inhabiting northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and eastern Siberia, traditionally living by hunting (especially of seals) and by fishing.
2.
either of the two main languages spoken by indigenous peoples of the Arctic (Inuit and Yupik), forming a major division of the Eskimo-Aleut family.
Hey, did you actually click through to the rest of that dictionary entry? Here's the next part!
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Usage notes
Eskimo has come to be considered offensive, especially in Canada, because it was widely thought to stem from a Cree pejorative meaning “eaters of raw meat”[9][7][8][4][5] (although both the Cree and Inuit ate raw meat).
In Canada, it has been superseded by Inuit (for the peoples, and Inuvialuit for those in the Western Arctic). The term is still used worldwide by historians and archaeologists.
In Alaska, indigenous Alaskans find this term too imprecise and prefer "Alaska Native", as "Eskimo" encompasses (and is the only encompassing term for) all the Arctic peoples including the Inuit Inupiat and the non-Inuit Yupik. However, Eskimo does not include the related Aleut people (Unangam).
Greenland natives also call themselves Greenlanders or Kalaallit, and their language Greenlandic or Kalaallisut.
Not that arguments based on the dictionary are particularly compelling, but your own source disagrees with you. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't read that far, rather than that you were being deliberately dishonest.
What don't you explain it to us and how it a derivation of a NON derogatory French word? While you are searching for other ways in which people can be offended of course. It must be nice to have the luxury and vanity to obsess over things that can't hurt people.
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Originally Posted by Sydney123
TBPO.... I’ve never heard anyone disparaging the word “Eskimo” or Eskimo people, nor do I know any Eskimos so I’ve never had a discussion with an Eskimo about their take on being called an Eskimo. I like Eskimo “kisses” though, ( and Eskimo Pies)
Although I understand it that most Americans are ignorant as to why the word "Eskimo" is offensive to Inuit, rather than be derisive about it, as they above two posts are, why not try and educate yourself. Or are you comfortable making fun of why blacks are offended by the "N" word?
Pilot1 thinks it's a french word. What he obviously does not know is that the French fur traders worked extensively with the Woodland Cree, who used the term in a derogatory way to talk about the Inuit. Sydney123 just doesn't get it at all.
Don't let your ignorance perpetuate racists stereotypes. I was well into my late 20's before, as a Canadian, I had any idea the "N" word was offensive to blacks. I just didn't know, and it took a trip to the USA for me to be schooled.
Consider yourselves schooled why the word Eskimo is equally offensive.
Yet words like F*ck, G.D., etc. are now no longer offensive and part of everyday vernacular.
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