[OT] Inuit? Eskimo?

[Anton Vredegoor]

Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:

>I'm still not sure what you're objecting to in the bigger issue. 
>There's no question that there is an unfortunate ambiguity in the term
>_American Indian_ to mean a Native American -- which comes from
>misexpectations of the discoverers and explorers of the New World -- vs.
>an American of (Asian) Indian origin.

In my original post, which was an answer to :

>    "Native American" is to "American Indian" as ______ is to "Eskimo".

I tried to "brainstorm" some possible delicate connotations of the
terms (perhaps not so successfully), because I think that is the way
to solve analogy problems like these.

Since you cut away the problem my post was about in your first reply
to my post it's not a surprise you are now having difficulties seeing
the bigger issue, which IMO was about solving this analogy problem. 

The answer is possibly "Indian" (with ambiguous connotations)

Anton