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Nesgroup address: rec.travel.europe - Date & Time for the message: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:51:51 +0200 /

Author of the message: Mxsmanic

Title of the message:
Re: Indian summer in Paris

Text of the message:
Floyd L. Davidson writes:

> Why would it imply they are from India?

India --> Indian, just as America --> American.

> That was called Hindustan by most Europeans at the time
> the term Indian became common as a reference to Native
> people in the Americas.

It's called India today.

> Words change.  They also have multiple meanings and often
> require context to determine which meaning is meant.

Trying to accelerate change for obscure reasons of political
correctness does nobody any favors.

> What is this "occasionally used"???  It is the single *most*
> commonly used term!

There's more to the world than the U.S., and outside the U.S., an
Indian is someone from India.  There a billion Indians, and only a few
million aboriginal Americans.

> The correct usage, for that meaning, would be "native of America".

No, native American is just as correct.



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