"European" or "asian" seems to be as big of a monolith than native american and yet it's a convenient term and in many cases it's not offensive. I don't see wh

"European" or "asian" seems to be as big of a monolith than native american and yet it's a convenient term and in many cases it's not offensive. I don't see why "native american" has to be euro-centric. They are the people that were living before the europeans (and middle-eastern, asians and africans) arrived. Those are also american now (as in: they are now citizens of a nation in the american continent), but I think we can distinguish the original population as "native". On the other hand I (personally, as a mixed race native american, I know other people don't mind) quite dislike the term "indian" as it stems from a confusion that europeans had many centuries ago...and somehow they haven't bothered to correct it?