@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.

>> ^Fusionaut:
Everything about this video is beautiful. The intimate camera work, the people talking softly in the background, the child dancing and, of course, the music and lyrics. Thanks Throbbin


That's how we roll

Yeah, I fell in love with it when I first came across it. I've listened to this song 100 times since I posted it.

1. I am arrogant.
2. I can make anyone laugh IRL. Anyone.
3. I wet the bed until I was 11.
4. I almost drowned in Hudson Bay when I was 3. My mother tells me she's never seen anyone run as fast as my father did that day.
5. I am supposed to have an older sister named Stephanie. She died 3 hours after birth.
6. After Stephanie, my parents tried to conceive for over 3 years, gave up, adopted my older sister, then found out they were pregnant a week later.
7. I have 13 siblings (most are adopted or fostered, 3 half-siblings, including 1 I've never met). I have no full siblings.
8. I am not fluent in my native tongue, and this has been a source of shame for me my entire life.
9. My wife is teaching me more of my native tongue living in southern Canada than I ever learned back home.
10. I tested (twice) in the 97th percentile for IQ in all of Canada. I took "enrichment" classes until high school, when we moved back north (no enrichment classes there).
11. I used to play D&D and Magic the Gathering, but was always on at least 1 sports team throughout school.
12. I had my first child when I was far too young.
13. I am overweight (but losing weight).
14. My wife tells me my best feature is my forehead (I'm not kidding).
15. I am going into Law School next year.
16. I smoke.
17. I take a certain pleasure in making people look like fools if I think they feel superior to me.
18. I am very self-conscious and I may try too hard.
19. My Inuktitut name is Nuliajuk, after my grandfather.
20. I make friends easily but rarely maintain relationships. I only have 5 'buddies'.
21. I have a very high tolerance for cold. My skin gets cold, but I don't feel cold.
22. People have guessed I am: Native American, Mexican, Phillipino, Samoan, Hawaaiin, Portuguese, Chinese, and Korean.
23. I have very little cartilage in my nose.
24. I procrastinate (thanks videosift).
25. I have abnormally strong legs. (I once maxed out a leg-press machine with 1 leg).

In. Uk, ti..Inuktitut. This a'int gonna be easy.