Ben & Jerry's says that the United States was stolen from the Indians so we need to give the land back to the Indians. How about Ben and Jerry's start by turning over the ownership of their factories to the native Indians.

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[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Native 'Americans' or Ethnic Americans, First Nation Americans, American-Americans, etc., ... native 'Indians' are native to India.

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    [–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    When you were in school, you were incorrectly taught to call them 'Indians'.

    Unfortunately, this idiotic error keeps being perpetuated, even being taught is school(!), though it's clearly a misnomer, i.e. it's wrong.

    The Native Americans, Ethnic Americans, First Nation Americans, American-Americans, etc. are the only fully real Americans for f*ck's sake!

    They're the only ones for whom America is, since prehistoric times(!), their ancestral homeland, with everybody else showing up during the past few centuries and correctly referred to as European-Americans, Asian-Americans, African-Americans, etc.

    The only real, American-American, Americans are those whom you call ... 'Indians'!?

    Though you can choose from any number of more or less accurate names for them, the one thing that these Ethnic-Americans are definitively not is ... 'Indians', who are from ... surprise, surprise(!) ... India.

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      [–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/indian