At 00:28:51 on Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Paul <paulmathewmac@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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>Yup. Glad you associated India with N.Delhi. There have been men who
>concluded I lived in an appache settlement when informed I was an
>Indian! It's funny. In India we consider the American Indian as a
>"Red Indian".
The acceptable term, in US and UK English, is "Native American"; "Red
Indian" is now seen as offensive. Incidentally, the "American" bit of
the name refers to the continents, not to the United States; so someone
of appropriate ethnic origin living in Canada or Peru is still a Native
American.
>In certain cities in Europe people exclaimed "Oh, the East India!" when
>I said I was from India. Until then I never knew I was not just an
>Indian, but an East Indian!
I don't know how the terms go in other European languages, but in UK
English "East Indies" refers (very roughly) to the islands between Asia
and Borneo - Malaysia, the Philippines etc. India, Pakistan and
Bangledesh are sometimes classified as "the sub-continent".
>With the fast-food culture catching on, we now have, apart from
>McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chickens, a chain of Pizza Huts in the
>major metros of India.
I'm very sorry to hear it. To counter-balance this, however, there now
seems to be a balti house in just about every town or village in the UK!
--
Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little tem****ary
safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
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