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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Indigenous” seems to be acceptable most people. When you know them personally, use their nation or tribal affiliation. Like if your friend was Korean, and you only referred to them as “Asian,” it might feel like you don’t care about the difference.

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  • Taniwha420@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve had members of the Métis community tell me to use “indigenous” with a mixed group because in Canada the Métis and the Inuit don’t fall under the Indian Act.

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  • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Me, Native american: Indigenous to where? lmfao

    I swear people just pick the worst words to describe people sometimes when going down the slippery slope for PC language. It’s also so arbitrary lol.

    People first language literally creates more in-groups and out-groups who have to jump literal semantic hoops, usually just make the in group feel a little better labeling someone because people turn a blind eye to racists.

    I have rarely, and I mean very, very rarely seen new language originate from minority or out-groups being used by their own people first then co-opted by the in-group. There’s some random language here and there, but anything race/ethnicity related, it’s almost always the in-group getting too racist to call people by what they used for the out-group before, and they have to start calling them something else or fear being branded a racist… Rather than, you know, ostracizing people for being fucking racist.

    Maybe I’m just too mixed or too ND to care, but for the same reason why if you get the pronunciation of my name close enough and know you’re referring to me, I could care less. (Heh)

    TBH, I wish Injun made a comebock.

    I like Namen (Native American, human, man, woman, his noodly appendage) too. No, I don’t care if you say Nay-men or Nah-men.

    You’re wrong if you pronounce GIF as JIF though.

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• gbuttersnaps@programming.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Different people prefer different nomenclature, but the generally accepted standard has switched from native American a couple decades ago to American Indian now. IIRC the change happened because calling people natives sometimes seems synonymous with calling them primitive. Most US tribal groups use American Indian now

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  • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you. That makes sense.

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Depends on your country. Really every place has come up with something different: First Nations, indigenous, native, etc.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  20 years ago it was “native, aboriginal, or first nation’s” people

  Not sure which is the current flavour

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• gears@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Native, I would assume

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