Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Stepan12

well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?


4 posted on 11/21/2012 5:33:57 AM PST by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]


To: Cronos

“well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?”

Injuns!


11 posted on 11/21/2012 5:44:33 AM PST by mkboyce
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: Cronos

“well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?”

North Asian migrants


12 posted on 11/21/2012 5:45:32 AM PST by mkboyce
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: Cronos; Stepan12

>>well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?

Aboriginal Americans?


18 posted on 11/21/2012 5:56:17 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: Cronos
The concept of America was the product of European settlers. Americans are a distinct and recognizable nationality. Place an American of German ancestry into Germany and he will be instantly perceived to be an American even if he is fluent in German. Irish Americans who go back to their ancestral homeland are seen not as lost kinsmen but as Yanks just like visiting Americans of English or Jewish background. A majority of white Americans are of mixed European ancestry, varying by region. For instance, in the Upper Midwest, there are mixtures of German (including Swiss and Austrian), Dutch, Flemish, and Scandinavian ancestry. The Northeast has mixtures of Italian, Irish, Slavic, and French Canadian ancestry. Appalachia has mixed Scotch-Irish and English ancestry, with some Germans, Scots, French, Irish, Welsh, and Cherokee as well.

The areas of the country largely settled by white Americans of pre-Revolutionary ancestry have a high percentage of persons who self-identify as Americans. This is true in the Deep South, northern New England, and the Ohio Valley. A similar phenomenon may be noted among English-speaking Canadians, who increasingly self-identify as Canadians rather than Scots, English, Irish, etc.

As for the American Indian/Native American, there is no really good term, unless we use the term aborigine, as the Australians do, or Original People, a term used by the Canadian government.

21 posted on 11/21/2012 6:04:50 AM PST by Wallace T.
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: Cronos
well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?

Asian invader

30 posted on 11/21/2012 6:26:45 AM PST by Roccus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: Cronos
well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?

Asian immigrants!

32 posted on 11/21/2012 6:39:17 AM PST by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: Cronos

‘well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?’

extinct?


56 posted on 11/21/2012 7:36:02 AM PST by Delta Dawn (The whole truth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: Cronos

“well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?”
Amerindian, except for the Eskimo-Aleut Liguistic Family such as the Aleuts, Alutiiq, Cupik, Yupik, and Inuit peoples of the northeern regions of North America.

The Amerindians represent at least two to three or more prehistoric immigrant populations having very different physical and cultural characteristics.


65 posted on 11/21/2012 8:40:14 AM PST by WhiskeyX
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: Cronos

Are you aware of a recent court decision in, I think, Louisiana, that puts limits on the land that the tribes can claim as sacred? The case has the potential to be a watershed case, allowing the liberals to pick and choose in which areas to give the tribes preferential treatment.


66 posted on 11/21/2012 8:46:43 AM PST by Eva
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson