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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm reading this with much interest and will ask my family tomorrow. As a "meztiza" with brown skin, black hair, mixed native american and spanish, my family has always called referred to ourselves (itself?) as "hispanos".  Here in the US I use Hispanic and Latina interchangeably.  I don't really care.

One of the threads touched on this but there is a lot of racism against Indians in our countries.  [b]Calling someone an Indian is an insult [/b]and many people have tried to distance themselves from their roots.  The racism is disgusting and terrible.  That may have something to do with it. [/quote]

[b]Admittedly, I don't know why people from the Americas use this term [/b]- ie, Indian to refer to Indigenous, or American Indian instead of Native American (or specific tribe).

[b]Indian = a person from India, and the Indian Subcontinent in South Asia[/b]. Someone who has mixed heritage and immigrants in their background, may call themselves "Indian American."

Anything else referring to people with deep roots in the Americas seems offensive and dumb. It's confusing for people who are actually from India, and it's borrowed from Columbus' screwup. [/quote]

Are you the Indian from the other thread?  We use the name Indian/Indio because when Christopher Columbus and the conquistadores came they called the Native Americans "Indians", "Indios".  I mean this nicely, but the name is pretty much stuck since it's been used since 1492.  It's not confusing.[/quote]

Yes, obviously. W[b]hat I don't understand is how it's not considered offensive to those communities,[/b] due to the totally inaccurate label originating from Columbus' ignorance and idiocy.

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I'll take a guess that it's because the name has been used literally for hundreds of years.  Maybe the tribes that were around in 1492 cared, or not.  [/quote]

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