Inuit--"the people" or "human"
Eskimo--"fish eater"
Ah, the old Political Correctness crowd is at it again.
Several letters protesting a recent "Mother Goose and Grimm" made it clear that the PC movement is alive and well and just as wrong as it was before. The letters appeared in the Lansing State Journal.
They made it clear that the authors thought "Inuit" was the accurate term for all northern Aborigine people.
This is incorrect.
There are dozens of northern tribes, and the Inuits are but one tribe.
It's an oversimplification, and it's insulting to non-Inuit people of the north. The political correctness crowd does this all the time and manages to ignore the wishes of the native population.
PC term constructs are discriminatory, inflammatory, arbitrary and flat-out wrong at times.
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