What do you call the indigenous people of the Americas?

[Esckey]

First Nations, Metis, or Inuit. Depending on the person that is

 

[warpus]

Can a black man become a citizen of Norway? If so, then he can become Norwegian, because that is all it takes to be Norwegian; citizenship. Nationality has nothing to do with race unless you're stuck in old world thinking. If you are, get out of it, it's the freaking 21st century. Race is stupid (with one exception), deal with it.

You're such an anti-racist (you're against races)

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Can a black man become a citizen of Norway? If so, then he can become Norwegian, because that is all it takes to be Norwegian; citizenship. Nationality has nothing to do with race unless you're stuck in old world thinking. If you are, get out of it, it's the freaking 21st century. Race is stupid (with one exception), deal with it.

I like you. I'd like you even more if you didn't translate the above opinion into being against the idea of hate speech.

 

[Dachs]

I had the impression it was a very new world thinking. With all these Americans bragging about they are 1/4 german 1/2 irish, 1/8 apache and so on. That's certainly not nationalities they're talking about.

Sure it is, because those things do not exist as genetic categories.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I usually refer to them by the specific tribe name if possible. The rest of the time I most often go with Native Americans, unless around someone (like my uncle Alan) who gets offended by political correctness. American Indians is fine too. Amerindians just sounds stupid and pretentious.

 

[Masada]

catch-all term that in past times could have meant anything from Persia to any set of islands in the Indian or even Pacific Ocean, to, later on, the Caribbean islands as well as the two Americas.

This is news to me.

Nor do I see why the Indians of Asia are presumed to have the better claim on the word "Indian" when the Indian word for India is "Bhārat Gaṇarājya" rather than India. If we want to clarify correctly, I would suggest calling the aboriginal peoples of the Americas "Indians" and those of the Asian subcontinent "Bhāratians."

India from Greek: Ἰνδία, "region of the Indus river" or something. That's the general translation, whether or not that's what it means to the peeps on the ground is something else entirely.

 

[onedreamer]

Well, he's not an Indigenous Australian. He's an American citizen of Native American descent; he simultaneously belongs to whichever Native American nation (or nations) he belongs to.

A native american living in Australia is a Native American Australian

If he's also black that makes him a Native African American Australian

I wonder if you two confirmed that a Pakistani living in Pakistan isn't West Pakistani?

 

[onedreamer]

Can a black man become a citizen of Norway? If so, then he can become Norwegian, because that is all it takes to be Norwegian; citizenship. Nationality has nothing to do with race unless you're stuck in old world thinking. If you are, get out of it, it's the freaking 21st century. Race is stupid (with one exception), deal with it.

There's only a little big shortage in your reasoning. A black man can be born Norwegian without the need to become one. That is all it takes to be Norwegian