Daily Swings in the thousands

[creeping panther]

Monkey

In my part of the US an American Indian calls himself an Indian. A "Native American" is traditionally something else, it means anyone who is not an immigrant and it used to mean a WASP.

The worst are the ones who start throwing weaker people out of the tribe after they build the casino so there are fewer to share the money with.

On the first Para. "To each his own".

On the second, how right you are!

CP

 

[runforcover]

Dont want this to be an anticlimax but according to the movie 21 you have to set all emotions aside. just concentrate on the counts i guess

 

[Kasi]

Myself, and hundreds of thousands of other people woke up this morning to discover that we are Canadian. I'm still not going to play their shitty games.

I wish I could wake up tomorrow morning as a Canadian.

Then I wouldn't have to play the shi*ty Canadian games - I could play the internet, couldn't I?

And even if I did choose to play the crap*y Canadian games, wouldn't any winnings not be subject to tax?

And maybe even have free health care?

What would it take to get dual-citizenship anyway?

 

[Kasi]

On the first Para. "To each his own".

I'm pretty ignorant on this stuff and it has nothing to do with the thread but, to educate me, how pejorative a term is "Indian" compared to "Native American" to a "Native American"?

I imagine perhaps pretty pejorative after the "immigrants" and descendants thereof killed, what, about 30,000,000 people they called "Indians"? Before the days of AK-47's. Maybe in the days of a single-shot musket? Pretty much one at a time?

And where does naming a football team, in the capital city of our country no less, such city symbolicly, supposedly, representing the best ideals of our country, "Redskins" fall on the pejorative scale to Native Americans? Is "Indian" prettyy bad but maybe tolerable but "redskins" even worse?

The only good thing our gov't did was recognize a couple hundred years later the scale of their sins and at least tried to do something about it and make reparations.

And now, sadly, it's apparently A-OK to torture prisoners with water-boarding but, I think, we executed Japanese soldiers who employed the same technique against us, if we could find them back in WWII.

Rant over lol.