The definition of "native" is that a specific creature is born in a place, or alternately that a particular species originates in a certain place. Therefore a "native american" would be anyone born in America, or alternately any species that originated in America.
The human species originated in Africa; so that part gets thrown out. That leaves being born in America; so there is no difference between the people that were indigenous to the Americas when the European settlers arrived, and those born in the Americas since that time.
There is no difference between this distinction, and saying that a member of the D.A.R. is somehow superior to a native born U.S. citizen whose parents immigrated to this country after WWII. Both show an unwarranted prejudice.
2006-06-26
03:16:58
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