Ashamed of American English when it calls #NativeAmericans "Indians" (... people posting 'This Pic' as if it's something to be Proud of) | @Quora @Wikia | #Native

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They post this ...

... and--tho I try to show them 'what an idiot-move it is to use "Indian"' (it's like calling all Whites "Scandinavian" ... the way all Blacks are called "African-American," tho a very small percentage of them have even been to 'the Moorish Continent!' ...)--I don't want to out-and-out comment on it because it might be seen as 'labeling' that group with "the stereotype that exiles TBIs from society" 😕

Besides ... what do you even call the #Native American racially? The closest I can think of is-- 'one of the five classic race-classifications' (although now that I think of it (it's early in the morning), maybe "Red men" might be better (as opposed to White, Black, Yellow or Brown).

But anyway ... What I show here is 'the group of words' that couch "that word" (below hyperlinked to a Quora-discussion about 'the five -oids (classic names for the races)') into your vocabulary---deeper meanings that 'firm the foundations' upon which our lexicon stands:
The word “Native (or #Natives #Nativeness ... NOT Nativity!... tho they have very similar roots)” is built on ancient words that mean "to Give Birth, Beget" (with |Procreation-, Family- & Tribe-derivatives).
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But 'the racial description' seems more appropriate because 'Native American' applies to MOST of my "minority raced"-friends (although FEW of them have 'Red' ancestry)!
The three great races according to Meyers Konversations-Lexikon of 1885-90. The subtypes of the Mongoloid race are shown in yellow and orange tones, those of the Europid race in light and medium grayish spring green-cyan tones and those of the Negroid race in brown tones. Dravidians and Sinhalese are in olive green and their classification is described as uncertain. The Mongoloid race sees the widest geographic distribution, including all of the Americas, North Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia, the entire inhabited Arctic.
I can't read the map's text (both because of the fuzzy graphics and because it's in Deutsche-or-something), but 


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