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Anyone else feel general dislike toward members of your own ethnic group?
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<blockquote data-quote="weambulance" data-source="post: 1020724" data-attributes="member: 7174"><p>It's silly for you, now, but that's out of historical context.</p><p></p><p>Why do we call America America? Because Amerigo Vespucci came along on Columbus's coattails (10 years later, no less) and wrote a few letters back home. Seems like a pretty silly reason to name two whole continents after the guy, all things considered. It should be North and South Columbia.</p><p></p><p>Lots of stuff like that is silly. I refuse to call suppressors "silencers" because they're not remotely silent, but that's what Maxim called them when he invented them so it's the common name.</p><p></p><p>What it boils down to is we call Indians Indians because, well, that's the term. Doesn't have to make sense, with five hundred years of weight behind it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="weambulance, post: 1020724, member: 7174"] It's silly for you, now, but that's out of historical context. Why do we call America America? Because Amerigo Vespucci came along on Columbus's coattails (10 years later, no less) and wrote a few letters back home. Seems like a pretty silly reason to name two whole continents after the guy, all things considered. It should be North and South Columbia. Lots of stuff like that is silly. I refuse to call suppressors "silencers" because they're not remotely silent, but that's what Maxim called them when he invented them so it's the common name. What it boils down to is we call Indians Indians because, well, that's the term. Doesn't have to make sense, with five hundred years of weight behind it. [/QUOTE]
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