What is the difference between east-indian and american indian?
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East Indians are the people that originate from Asia and American Indians are the people that the Europeans found in America when they settled here.
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No, I don't think Indians have a more dominant group. I have seen many half white-half indians, some of them look more like whites and some of them look more like Indians.
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Powwow on the Reservation\nA Conversation with Scott Momaday\nby Claes Nordenskiöld \n"You will forgive me if I tell you that my people were Americans for thousands of years before your people were. The question is not how you can Americanize us but how we can Americanize you. We have been working at that for a long time. Sometimes we are discouraged at the results. But we will keep trying. And the first thing we want to teach you is that, in the American way of life, each man has respect for his brother’s vision." \n\n\nAnother said: “The question is not how you can Americanize us but how we can Americanize you.”(45) \n45. Quoted in Edgar S. Cahn, ed., Our Brother’s Keeper: The Indian in White America (New York and Cleveland: World, 1969), pp. 184, 175.
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Both forms of English come from the same place- British English. British English is what most of the world speaks if they use English (including India). American English is becoming a completley different language in its own. We keep adding so much slang and pronunciations that keep changing the language. The only real difference between American English and British English is that they have different words for things and their sentence order is different sometimes. In American English, our sentence order is correct if we put it in our forms or if we put it in the British form, which makes American English that much harder. For example. We would say "Go wake up my sister, or go wake my sister up" The British wuold say "Go knock up my sister" which we would sometimes interpret as go get my sister pregnant. It all comes down to the wording. As far as Indian English, it is really British English, except that few Indians are able to speak with the accuracy of someone who was born in an English speaking country.
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Native Americans tribe names are as numerous as sand on the beach. I think you're asking probably, who named them "Indians." I imagine that would be Columbus who thought he ended up in India and assumed those he met were Indians. Various tribe names as we know them today are probably whatever we could repeat as white settlers. Im sure if you ask an Indian their tribe name may be different than what we commonly know them as. Like the Anasazi, if I remember right, the call themselves someting different, Anasazi is a name the whites gave them because thats what they heard their enemies call them.
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PLease, don't fall in the trap yourself! The point is not that the boy is East Indian, but ignorant!\nYou should stress this fact to your son, so that he doesn't get a biased idea of East Indians.
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as a native american i agree with you 100%. and just to let you know we don't like the term indian because we are not from india or the east indies like columbus thought we where. not an attack on you but just to let you know.
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Americans are rude but Indians are by far worse.  Atleast Americans dont go and grab womens breasts and butt right on the streets like Indians do and consider it acceptable.  American taxi drivers dont drop you off at the wrong location intentionally to scam you like indian taxis.  American police and teachers dont demand bribes like indian ones do.  So  Ill say compared to Indians, americans are saints
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I noticed that you did'nt mention a specific tribe.\nDifferent tribes have different dances.\nDifferent tribes have different beliefs.\n\nYou got to be more specific.\n\nAs to the person that answered previously:\nAnybody with common sense would know this.
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No American Indians are not myth.  They are of the human species just like you.  They are not extinct.\n\nThis is what the Smithsonian Institue says:\nThe American Indians are physically Mongoloids and thus must have originated in eastern Asia. The differences in appearance of the various New World tribes in recent times are due to (1) the initial variability of their Asian ancestors; (2) adaptations over several millennia to varied New World environments; and (3) different degrees of mixing in post-Columbian times with people of European, African, and Asian origins. Differences from their relatives in northeastern Asia are also due to changes in the latter populations after the separation. \n\nBering Strait, where the Eastern and Western Hemispheres face one another across a narrow strip of water, is the most likely place for migrating groups to have crossed into the New World. There is not sufficient evidence for immigration via other routes before the Norse arrivals in Greenland and Newfoundland about A.D. 1,000, and if indeed any other early voyages occurred, they were insignificant for the origins and composition of New World populations. \n\nJust when the Paleo-Indians--the first inhabitants of the Americas--entered the Americas is still under investigation. The prevailing theory calls for bands of interior hunters passing over the Bering Land Bridge, when sea levels were as much as 300 feet below at the end of the last Ice Age, and preceding through an "ice-free corridor" between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets to reach unglaciated lands to the south. Another theory calls for a coastal movement along the southern edge of the Land Bridge by early sea-adapted peoples. Certainly Paleo-Indians were well established south of the ice sheet by 12,000 years ago. Yet those probably were not the first arrivals. Sites and artifacts claimed to be older than this are gaining acceptance, but anything dated older than about 14,000 years ago, the date when rising sea levels submerged with Bering Land Bridge, separating Asia from the Americas, is still regarded with skepticism. However, some scholars do feel that humans were in North America at least by 20,000-25,000 years ago.\n\nAt no time, however, was the peopling of the New World a mass movement of people. More likely it was a trickle of small groups or bands entering from Asia over thousands of years. Among the last to arrive were the ancestors of the Eskimos who, settling along the Arctic coasts, effectively ended the migrations.
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I doubt it. Indian food is very different from American food. Indians eat a different kind of snack from Americans. Many Indians are vegetarian. Indians in European countries always complain that European food doesn't taste of anything. I don't think the standard Kentucky Lumps of Lard product would have much of a chance.
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is the question "i am Indian"or "i am an Indian male"?
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how can you tell the difference between an american and canadian person?
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I'm an American Indian, Ojibwe tribe.\nI've always said, my ancestors fought their wars and lost.\nTo the victor goes the spoils. \nI do not collect money from the government based on my nationality. That way I can teach my daughter to make her own way in life.\nI'm an American citizen; I'm American Indian. I'd rather live here than any other place in the world.
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Indian immigrants? Are we speaking Indians from India? or Native American???? because Native American's ARE NOT immigrants. Anglo Saxon's are immigrants.\n\nP.S. How many Anglo Saxon's have you seen working in the fields picking lettuce in California? How many want to? I think we should all consider the jobs that the immigrants have, would any of you want them? No.......
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Asian Americans are good for people from oriental descent. American Indian is more difficult to evaluate but is good for Native Americans. Hispanic according to what they told me is for people that descend from countries colonized by Spain or Spain.
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native to what land? india? then yes.\nif you mean native americans, then "indian" was a misnomer. when columbus landed here, he hoped he had landed in india. "indians" would have made sense if he was correct.\nthe name just stuck. like many things in history and language. \n:D