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"Jim Carter" wrote in message ... "Floyd L. Davidson" wrote in message ... You said before that your niece told you how they felt... The only people I've ever seen get as adamant about it as you are, are *all* non-Eskimos, and have also all been people who have limited contact with them at best. (And yes, in my opinion school teachers typically have limited contact with them, unfortunately.) The last school teacher, or former teacher in this case, that I talked to about it was my daughter. She spent three years going to school in Albuquerque a few years ago, and told me that a lot of people objected to her use of the term Eskimo. They'd tell her she should said "Inuit". She'd politely say, "No, I am Yupik Eskimo." -- Floyd L. Davidson http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) Floyd: It takes time for some people to adjust to proper and polite society. It may take years for you to change your outlook on life, as you see it, just as it took years for most people in the USA to accept that certain racial slurs are not acceptable to most people. If you want to call your Yupik people "Eskimo" then by all means, go ahead, it's your life, but, please do not refer to the Inuit in the Canadian Far North as "Eskimo" To do so, you will then be referred to as an uninformed bigot. I am not "Black" but I would not think it proper to call a black person a "******" even if "he" calls himself one. Therein lies the problem. If the term is derogatory then it is derogatory by any and all that use it, one segment of society cannot reserve the term for their exclusive use. |
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