I had a sociology professor from Harvard as a passenger on a schooner I was operating and we talked about this very thing. He also felt it was divisive to label Americans by their ethnicity and through his research he had found that most American Indians preferred to be called Indians.
Personally, I like the term that the northern Canadian Indians use for themselves; "the First People".
Pride in ethnicity has nothing to do with labels imposed by a government in the name of political correctness. One should be proud of one's accomplishments, not in something one has absolutely no control over and has no real meaning in life. How would it change an American's day to day life if their grandparents were from Germany rather than England or Africa?
Is it normal to be infuriated by the term
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I had a sociology professor from Harvard as a passenger on a schooner I was operating and we talked about this very thing. He also felt it was divisive to label Americans by their ethnicity and through his research he had found that most American Indians preferred to be called Indians.
Personally, I like the term that the northern Canadian Indians use for themselves; "the First People".
Pride in ethnicity has nothing to do with labels imposed by a government in the name of political correctness. One should be proud of one's accomplishments, not in something one has absolutely no control over and has no real meaning in life. How would it change an American's day to day life if their grandparents were from Germany rather than England or Africa?