Brits would rather have been born Indian

[Psyops]

Havent heard of the term black Indian before, but Red Indian is as much a racist term as P*k*.. So if you are sensitive about your kind being a target of racial slurs, learn to to be sensitive to to others' sensitivities too..

Then what is the non-racial term for them?
Native Indians? Native Americans?

Where do they get the 'Indian' tag from?

 

[karan.1970]

Then what is the non-racial term for them?
Native Indians? Native Americans?

Native Americans is most widely accepted

Where do they get the 'Indian' tag from?

By Columbus I guess, who had set out to find India and ended up in America instead and mistook the natives as Indians ....

 

[sankranti]

Then what is the non-racial term for them?
Native Indians? Native Americans?

Where do they get the 'Indian' tag from?

I believe 'Native American' is the politically correct term.

Don't they teach gobal History in Chinese schools ?

Christopher Columbus (the man who discovered America) was trying to find a new separate trade route to India (from Europe) and when he reached the US he thought he has reached India.

But the local population he found there did not look like Indians, did not dress like Indians nor did they speak any Indian language but he though they may be a separate tribe in India and he called them 'Red Indians' ......the name stuck.....

In short America was discovered by accident when the dude was trying to find India !

 

[888jamie888]

No, I would not like to be born an Indian.

 

[livingdead]

No, I would not like to be born an Indian.

you are not among the 32 percent then...

 

[Shinigami]

who is a black indian?

 

[navtrek]

Then what is the non-racial term for them?
Native Indians? Native Americans?

Where do they get the 'Indian' tag from?

Columbus set out to find a better trade route to India. The route used at that time was to sail east which meant sailing around Africa. By looking at the charts and maps he theorized would possible to sail west, avoid Africa and reach India directly. and initially thought he’d landed somewhere in India. The maps and charts did not take account of the Americas and when he landed, although he wasn't the first European to have discovered the continent, he initially thought he had reached India.

When Columbus arrived in the new world, he thought he had landed in the East Indies, so therefore, he called the natives 'Indians' as the people in the Indies were referred to at that time. The name stuck and remained part of history since and was eventually accepted by the natives.

 

[deepak.chauhan2312]

Same thing I asked.

buddy we can not understand their mentality.We are from developing countries.I think They are fed up with all the advancement and modernization (Which is amusing us) of the world. They need some changes. millions of foreigners comes to India in search their mental peace and to learn yoga and they got confused and thinks "thats it,This is what India is" . but shouldn't your question be like this: why they want to born in any other country than Britain and by the way China is not amusing for them too(at least India has its meditation or something what china got in its pocket to offer which Britain doesn't have already)

 

[IND151]

Interesting article

 

[Backbencher]

who is a black indian?

I guess it means black by skin colour.

 

[Arya Desa]

They have a romanticized view of India. Someone should bring them to reality- India is not a utopia. She has a long way to go before she can eclipse Britain although she clearly has overtaken pakistan, Somalia and bangladesh (but that's not saying much).

who is a black indian?

Jana's grandfather.

 

[Dubious]

Then what is the non-racial term for them?
Native Indians? Native Americans?

Where do they get the 'Indian' tag from?

@Psyops Columbus thought he had reached India when he was in N. America and started calling the Red Indians as Indians...ignorance is a bliss

 

[nastikan]

Until they come to India and see the reality.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

"the grass is always greener on the other side"

These Brits just dont know how good they have it. Then again, I hear that everything is brown and grey there and the sun doesn't show up most of the year...

 

[Vinod2070]

No offense, but why would anyone want to be born an Indian ?!

1.2 billions would.

Every time they get a chance.

Not sure about anyone wanting to be a desert nomad though.