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And I've heard Eskimo is a preferred collective term for North American indigenous arctic dwellers, because Inuit is just one tribe/ethnicity among a few!

So it goes.



Just think about it from the other direction.

To most Australian Aborigines, whites are called "Hollanders".

How much are you offended by that?


> How much are you offended by that?

Tremendously :P where I'm from "hollander" is a type of pipe fitting.


Well, you should have discovered Australia first then.


.. but I am thinking about if from the other direction.

From the perspective of the non-Inuit Eskimos.




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