That's probably the coolest thing I've read in a long time

In reply to this comment by Throbbin:
While I'm not crazy about the word 'Eskimo' (it's actually a Cree word that the French adopted), we do use it amongst ourselves.

As for others using it - a friend of mine once asked an Inuk Elder what he thought about the word. The Elder responded that we never asked white people what they wanted to be called (we call them Qallunaq), so why should we get upset about what people call us?

>> ^kir_mokum:

"eskimo" is a racial slur, btw.

SWEET! I learned another way to offend people! You ESKIMO!

I come from the USA but have lived in Thailand for a few years now.

Here any westerner is called a "farang" in Thai, which would technically mean "Frenchman" as a direct translation but the de-facto definition is any westerner. A few westerners take offense to the term, for whatever reason, so some Thais (10-20%) are hesitant to use it for fear of causing offense. For me personally, I don't feel offended when being called a farang.

However, there is another term for westerners: "kee nok", which translates to "bird shit". We're whities, bird shit is white, and there you go. That one is intended to be derogatory (fairly obviously). I don't find the phrase itself offense, it is actually rather humorous -- but in general if a Thai calls a westerner "kee nok", they intend to cause offense.

So I guess that I'm saying that the intent is important to consider, and I figure a lot of people that would use the word "eskimo" don't know or intend it to be offensive.

>> ^nanrod:
Are youse guys really lecturing Throbbin on the use of the term Eskimo. Why don't you ask him instead, he is after all an Inuk. And while Eskimo has become a passe term in Canada it is still commonly used in Alaska. And while the Unuit people may find offensive meaning in the term it has hardly been used as a racial insult. For the most part it has been used as a generic term to describe all Arctic peoples by people who had no idea of its real meaning.


you can't really fault anyone on that since it's not exactly self evident info.

>> ^Throbbin:

While I'm not crazy about the word 'Eskimo' (it's actually a Cree word that the French adopted), we do use it amongst ourselves.
As for others using it - a friend of mine once asked an Inuk Elder what he thought about the word. The Elder responded that we never asked white people what they wanted to be called (we call them Qallunaq), so why should we get upset about what people call us?


Sir, that may be one of the most racially tolerant (and awesome) things i've ever heard. Kudos!

*Quality.

While I'm not crazy about the word 'Eskimo' (it's actually a Cree word that the French adopted), we do use it amongst ourselves.

As for others using it - a friend of mine once asked an Inuk Elder what he thought about the word. The Elder responded that we never asked white people what they wanted to be called (we call them Qallunaq), so why should we get upset about what people call us?

I see you getting banned. my spidey ban senses are tingling. that Eskimo shit you said was right retarded.

not because of that, but if thats the mentality you have, your going to fuck up big, sometime and the hammer will fall.

That eskimo is looking for some sqauw!

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Are youse guys really lecturing Throbbin on the use of the term Eskimo. Why don't you ask him instead, he is after all an Inuk. And while Eskimo has become a passe term in Canada it is still commonly used in Alaska. And while the Unuit people may find offensive meaning in the term it has hardly been used as a racial insult. For the most part it has been used as a generic term to describe all Arctic peoples by people who had no idea of its real meaning.

>> ^robdot:

wow, are you kidding me with this fucking bullshit? cant even say eskimo now? watch this.
eskimo ! nigger! wop ! beaner! midget ! yea, i said it! midget !! just words. idiot almost kills himself but heaven forbid we call him an eskimo.


Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

@robdot & @shuac

In Canada and Greenland[1][14][17][20] the term Eskimo is widely held to be pejorative[20][11] and has fallen out of favour, largely supplanted by the term Inuit. However, while Inuit describes all of the Eskimo peoples in Canada and Greenland, that is not true in Alaska and Siberia. In Alaska the term Eskimo is commonly used, because it includes both Yupik and Inupiat, while Inuit is not accepted as a collective term or even specifically used for Inupiat (who technically are Inuit). No universal replacement term for Eskimo, inclusive of all Inuit and Yupik people, is accepted across the geographical area inhabited by the Inuit and Yupik peoples.[1]

Since the 1970s in Canada and Greenland Eskimo has widely been considered offensive, as mentioned above. In 1977, the Inuit Circumpolar Conference meeting in Barrow, Alaska, officially adopted Inuit as a designation for all circumpolar native peoples, regardless of their local view on an appropriate term. As a result the Canadian government usage has replaced the (locally) defunct term Eskimo with Inuit (Inuk in singular). The preferred term in Canada's Central Arctic is Inuinnaq,[21] and in the eastern Canadian Arctic Inuit. The language is often called Inuktitut, though other local designations are also used.

While I agree that certain terms (Indian, Midget, etc) are stupid to take offense to, but when they actually have a conference and agree upon something they prefer to be called, I can respect that, and respect their wishes.

They did not just say "No, you can't say that anymore, that's our word" or "I find this term offensive" they made a name for their race as a whole.

You're welcome to be offended by the word "eskimo" but I shall continue to use it despite this, thanks.

wow, are you kidding me with this fucking bullshit? cant even say eskimo now? watch this.
eskimo ! nigger! wop ! beaner! midget ! yea, i said it! midget !! just words. idiot almost kills himself but heaven forbid we call him an eskimo.

"eskimo" is a racial slur, btw.