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From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
Subject: Re: Most recent common ancestors
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:58:37 +0000
In-Reply-To: <87vewgzopk.fld@apaflo.com>


> From: (Floyd L. Davidson)

> In Alaska and Siberia that is true. Years ago most Yupik people
> took some offense at being called Inuit. Today they don't seem
> to care much, though I'm positive that most of them are annoyed
> when somebody tries to lecture them that they are actually
> Inuit, not Eskimos.>

The "somebody" presumably being ultra-politically correct white
liberals, usually ridden with self-inflicted guilt over the colonial
past of Europeans, who manage at a stroke to alienate just about
everybody but themselves.

They alienate those who do not share their tunnel-vision obsession
with race and the correct way of describing racial groups, and they
alienate the ethnic minorities they naively believing they are
helping by patronising them.

Eskimos, Inuit, what the heck does it matter? As a Yorkshireman I'm
content to be called almost anything - except, of course a
Lancastrian !!!

Roy Stockdill
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and that is not being talked about."

Oscar Wilde

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