"Jim Carter" wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Well, she was planning to sell Sterno to Eskimos, but she drank it,
instead.
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Good Morning Harry.

I am sure you did not know that using the word "Eskimo" to describe the
"Inuit" people of the far north, is like calling a black man the " N " word.

You probably shouldn't get too carried away with being PC...
because the above simply is *not* true.

Eskimos people in Greenland and Canada are all Inuit, and much
prefer to be called Inuit (or Greenlander in Greenland) mostly
because that best describes them. In Canada the term Eskimo
does have some racist connotations, but nothing near what you
are saying. What Inuit people in Canada object to is not the
word's use, but its misuse.

Of course in Alaska where there are both Inuit (none of whom
want to be called Inuit) and Yupik Eskimos, the term Eskimo is
commonly used by virtually everyone. And Inuit is never used,
because the Inuit people of Alaska all call themselves Inupiat.
(And individual is an Inupiaq, and the language is Inupiaq.
That is somewhat different than Yupik, where an individual is a
Yuk, and the language is Yupik.)

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Floyd L. Davidson http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)