AB-ORIGINAL
So last night we were down in King & John and there was this aboriginal Indian sitting on the street corner and he was carving... out of styrofoam! Crazy! Brilliant!
posted by Sen | 8/21/2005 12:42:00 PM
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Smiley
your post made me realize something...
8/21/2005 04:28:00 PMyou specified "aboriginal indian"...
in southern ontario if you say someone is indian it means they come from india
whereas in western canada if you say someone is an indian it means they are native...you would have to specify east indian for instance.
this is an obvious artifact...clearly it is just due to the population of the two groups in these regions but interesting nonetheless.
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Sen
These terms are malleable and what it really comes down to is context. You could be an East Indian West Indian from North India – like V.S. Naipaul!
8/22/2005 09:32:00 AMIn North America, East Asians have a monopoly on the term Asian; people from the Indian subcontinent are either simply brown or have to qualify their Asian status by stating “South Asian.” In the UK brown people are Asian and East Asians are “oriental.”
I once told my ethnic Indian friend from Tanzania that he could claim he was Canadian, Indian, Asian, African and aboriginal all at the same time.
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Smiley
change my pic up top to something like chans...i want something symbolic rather than just a regular pic
8/22/2005 07:27:00 PM-
Smiley
killer
8/23/2005 11:09:00 AM-
James
I hope you guys don't mind my new picture!
8/23/2005 02:03:00 PMPost a Comment
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