sprocket wrote:
> Molly Mockford wrote:
>
>> The acceptable term, in US and UK English, is "Native American"; "Red
>> Indian" is now seen as offensive.
>
> As you go on to point out, the term covers every one from an Inuit to
> a Fuegan. I once proposed Asana (Aboriginal sub-Arctic North
> Americans) for what used to be called "Red Indians", but it didn't
> catch on. Pity, it has a nice ethnic sound.
>
>> India, Pakistan and
>> Bangledesh are sometimes classified as "the sub-continent".
>>
>
> Mainly for cricketing purposes.
No, it's because Pakistan and Bangladesh object to the descriptive phrase
"Indian Sub-Continent".
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John Briggs
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