‘Tribus’ to a pagan Roman (during the Republic) meant ‘constituency’, as in, a bounded geographical region that elects an MP (for them, a Senator).
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So it’s a word that really has gone all around the houses.
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Also what’s this PC person saying “American Indians” for?
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I assumed the preferred term had changed?
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It has. It's now PC to call them North American Indians. I live in a place with a lot of tribes. This is a thing. "Indigeonous, Native American and First Nations Peoples" are considered offensive and problematic.
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Who decides what terms are "offensive and problematic"? It seems that it is often a small, but very vocal,
#PoliticallyCorrect minority that decides that certain terms to describe#NorthAmerica's original "settlers" are no longer acceptable.#SemAntics#Aboriginal#Indigenous
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It’s funny to me that the term tribalism is offensive but “American Indian” is not.
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Correct..."Native American"...note "Native" and not "Indigenous"
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Hilarious that Americans don’t think that history preceded their nation’s presence on earth. Not surprised at his heavy dose of himself, especially for the sake of diminishing another’s opinion. We can’t possibly be as intellectual and as PC as these elitists
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Guy descended to barbaroi tribes here, 'sup
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https://twitter.com/dylanmatt/status/985669328791113728 … Tribe..describes a group of.. a collective, a same ideologically based, people, of at least 500. Many tribes scattered around the globe seeking refuge from the beasts of the Savana. the twelves tribes of Israel... The germanic tribes, of germany...
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He DID say it was his most PC opinion. Not his most correct, sensible, or respectable. Poe's Law allows me to even imagine he was speaking parodically. Thank Hades.
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Surely one could reasonably assume that he knows the term "tribe" is not derived from any Native American language and is instead, a translation of such words and concepts as existed at that time into English. Maybe not.
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OK THEN ITS ANTISEMITIC !!!
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To Helen <Curtsy>
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Vox has become an insane asylum
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You think he'd object more to "American Indian" as that term originates from a European navigational error. Did you just assume my continent?
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