For example, some tribes think that they are God's chosen people, created in God's image. That's rather ethnocentric. Do you know of other tribes or cultures that think they are human but others are not?
2006-06-16 19:59:14 · 3 answers · asked by valcus43 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I'm sorry to hear that the term Eskimo is pejorative and insulting. Is it accurate that the name the Eskimo people call themselves a reference to being the humans?
The first answer is well put. The second and third answers were informative, thank you all.
2006-06-19 15:23:39 · update #1
Lots and lots. If you go back far enough in almost any group, you will find that they once referred to themselves by some label like "The People" or "The Human Beings" , and referred to people outside the group simply as "The Others" or "The Non-Humans". Our word "barbarian" comes from an old Greek word meaning "stranger, not one of us".
2006-06-16 20:05:57 · answer #1 · answered by kill_yr_television 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eskimo means "raw meat eater" and was the name native American Indian's gave to the Inuit people,as an insulting term.
2006-06-17 21:11:12 · answer #2 · answered by BellaDonna 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of the people you may call Eskimo call themselfs that. Eskimo is a name given by white people.
2006-06-17 07:48:26 · answer #3 · answered by Cymalon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋