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Canadians now roll with the term Indigenous instead of Aboriginal
by glouwbug 5y ago
Canadians now roll with the term Indigenous instead of Aboriginal
- spenczar5 5y agoThat may be, but in this case it is a precise technical term, referring to a particular block of Unicode: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Canadian_Aboriginal_Syllabics_(Unicode_block) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Canadian_Aboriginal_... Maybe the Unicode Consortium should change it, but for now, Canadian Aboriginal is the correct term.
- uuddlrlr 5y agoColloquially in the north "native" is ubiquitous.
- andai 5y agoFor now...
- LudwigNagasena 5y agoIn 10 years a new word may become fashionable. Better to keep technical terms the same.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoIt's not about fashion, it's about cultural identity. I take it you don't see a problem with master/slave either? Just do a find and replace, refactoring is easy and trying to argue on the internet about it is tiring.
- earleybird 5y agoIf identity is about appearance, that would seem to admit fashion for consideration.
- asguy 5y agoI take it you didn’t grow up in the 80s. Trends in words change: you’ll see it with your own eyes. > trying to argue on the internet about it is tiring. … exactly.