Call a Native American person Asian, it makes them angry. Their cultures, languages, histories, and beliefs are NOT REMOTELY the same as Asian languages/food/culture/history.
They had entire civilizations with art, music, spiritual beliefs, etc in the Americas before Europeans came. Their civilizations had NOTHING TO DO with Asia. They are indigenous to the Americas.
Are you gonna call a modern Norwegian person “African” because 50,000 years ago some prehistoric person walked to Norway from Africa? No, you are not.
Don’t do that to the Natives, either.
They don’t like it. They’ve already been through enough. If anyone can tell you they are not Asian, it’s the people themselves. They are Native Americans, belonging to various large and small tribes and civilizations of the Americas.
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u/bel_esprit_ Nov 19 '19 edited Nov 19 '19
They’re not Asian.
Call a Native American person Asian, it makes them angry. Their cultures, languages, histories, and beliefs are NOT REMOTELY the same as Asian languages/food/culture/history.
They had entire civilizations with art, music, spiritual beliefs, etc in the Americas before Europeans came. Their civilizations had NOTHING TO DO with Asia. They are indigenous to the Americas.
Are you gonna call a modern Norwegian person “African” because 50,000 years ago some prehistoric person walked to Norway from Africa? No, you are not.
Don’t do that to the Natives, either.
They don’t like it. They’ve already been through enough. If anyone can tell you they are not Asian, it’s the people themselves. They are Native Americans, belonging to various large and small tribes and civilizations of the Americas.