Aren't Eskimos and Inuit different people? I think 'eskimo' is considered offensive in North America, but for no particularly good reason. I could be wrong, but it seems similar to the distinction between Travellers and Gypsies in the UK. Neither is a derogatory term, but members of one group may be offended if they are called by the name of the other group. And either term can be offensive if it's meant by the user to be offensive.
Eskimo is a broader term that also includes the Inuit as well as the Yupik people of Siberia and Alaska. It has come to be seen as a pejorative, but I'm not entirely sure why.
Irish travelers and the Romani people are two very different people. And there are Eskimos in western Alaska that consider themselves as such, whereas they might take offense if referred to as Inuit.
Thank you, brandybuck96, for that! The concept of 'races' is a pseudo-scientific fraud that continues to cause more social problems than almost any other concept. I deeply appreciate your comment!
In Canada we use First Nations to refer to the people who came 10,000+ years ago. Inuit refers to people who only arrived 5000 years ago; they have completely different languages, traditions and ethnicity. We use aboriginal to refer to First Nations, Inuit and Métis (people of mixed heritage). Yes race is a fiction. Culture and ethnicity are not.
There is also no biological basis for ethnicity. It's a real thing only because ethnicity is merely the labels that people choose to identify with or attach to themselves. I think you probably know this so.. just pointing it out.
Yes and no. There are biological differences between people that correlate with place of origin, obviously. There are just no clear lines between these neat categories called races or ethnicities that humans made up.
Nope, they're all Mongoloids. But technically, the Inuit and Amerinds are in different sub-races. The borders between different races and especially sub-races are often quite blurry so I wouldn't waste my time saying exactly who belongs to which sub-race.
I tried a bunch of tribes that I hear about all the time, and all of them have really low populations... I tried Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Hopi, Ute, and Paiute, and none were correct.
4/5 points for scoring a 47%...yeah, I'll take that! But also, the stats on this quiz and my own score make me so sad. There are well over 500 recognized tribes in the US alone, and I struggled to rattle off about 15 tribes total, only 7 of which made this list.
Entire years of history classes in American schools should focus on Native Americans and all the different, unique tribes and what happened to them. So many lessons there. Instead, we mostly learn about whitewashed American history that starts around the revolution or a little before, and European history that focuses on wars from hundreds of years ago and pointlessly memorized crap like Henry 8's wives. I remember maybe having a couple little units (skimmed over usually) about Native Americans. Maybe a WHOLE chapter in one book on how we wiped them out and cheated them at every turn--if you're lucky. It's so ridiculous.
The term 'Eskimo' was used by the Canadian government in ways that made the term offensive to Canadian natives. There's a different history in Alaska.
(Or, if you are reading an old Jules Verne novel about a captain who tries to get to the north pole, Esquimaux),
means "Eaters of raw meat"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo
.Cherokee myself. Though I wouldn't answer that way on a census.
Entire years of history classes in American schools should focus on Native Americans and all the different, unique tribes and what happened to them. So many lessons there. Instead, we mostly learn about whitewashed American history that starts around the revolution or a little before, and European history that focuses on wars from hundreds of years ago and pointlessly memorized crap like Henry 8's wives. I remember maybe having a couple little units (skimmed over usually) about Native Americans. Maybe a WHOLE chapter in one book on how we wiped them out and cheated them at every turn--if you're lucky. It's so ridiculous.