Re: NEWS: MicroSoft's Spanish language problems

Barbara wrote:
> > Thomas Typed;
> > Generally agreed, but to be fair, the term "American Indian"
> > is often considered less patronizing by many of the peoples
> > it describes than "Native American" is. (Of course, this does
> > not legitimize these other synonyms.)
>
>Barbara Babbles;
>Would "native American" also be used to describe the indigionous peoples
>of Central and South America?  I'd have thought that with such PC terms
>as "Afro-American" etc that "american" implied nationality.
Funny: I've always assumed that "American" refered to the continents in the
phrase "native American", and therefore included not only the Red Indians
(is that term PC nowadays?) but also the Aleutians and (non-Siberian)
Eskimos.

(Anybody remembering the discussion, perhaps a year back, about whether the
use of "American" as the adjective going with the USA was a good idea? I
still maintain that it creates some practical problems that could've been
avoided ... altho' it's obviously little point in trying the change it now.
Not to mention how thankful I'd been if Columbus and Co hadn't refered to
the inhabitants of the Caribbean as "Indians" ...)

                                                          Andreas

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