Well I am part native american but ive been lately into the idea that we are part asian. But it seems that my "native" brethren get so pissy about this, i dont believe the creation story. Why cant you listen to my opinion too here?
2007-10-17 09:08:59 · 9 answers · asked by Maverick 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
What makes it a rant? I'm not saying racist remarks or anything, it seems that people who answer my question rant more. Maybe this is a rant to you because it disagrees with what YOU want to hear.
2007-10-17 10:03:29 · update #1
And see as an American I should be able to say my opinion as well as you all. I'm not telling you to convert to my belief. But it is sometimes vice versa.
2007-10-17 10:05:26 · update #2
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It seems that you already have your opinion concerning this topic... thus you are not asking a question... but looking for a debate.
2007-10-17 09:55:04 · answer #1 · answered by wendy c 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Most here don't have a problem listening to opinions - that's what this is all about. Though some, including me, might take exception to the colorful nature of some words you use. Seems to be totaly acceptable in some of the Answer's forums, but really not done in this one.
This is an open forum, all you have to do is sign up. Unfortunately, there are "trollers" that look for opportunities to do everything from convert, to just provide idiotic bigoted rants. Often they get removed, but not always. But don't believe just because someone presents such a "response", and I use that term loosely, that it reflects the general feeling. In this forum, you can usually determine the "nature" of the respondent by just putting your cursor on the avitar symbol of the person. Darn good chance that you won't find very many "best answers" associated with them, though often they will have a TON of answers through their trolling.
IMHO, you will get a lot more respect and legitimate, honest responses if you present yourself a little differently (might I suggest the word "upset" or "angry" or such).
I am one of "you people" and I certainly don't get that way when someone says native american's are asians, nor do most of the kind people who support this forum extensively.
2007-10-17 15:34:52 · answer #2 · answered by Mind Bender 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Issues of race will always be sensitive, because it has been used so often to justify oppression.
The notion that Native Americans are Asian dates back to a discredited attempt to divide the world into a few large racial categories, of which Europeans or "Caucasians" were of course superior. In this system Native Americans were considered "Mongoloid" along with Asians, and were considered less valuable than Caucasians but more so than Africans. You see the problem?
Sure, the first Native Americans came from Asia, but so what? Eventually we all came from Africa, so it would make as much sense to call us all African. It just doesn't mean anything.
2007-10-17 09:18:00 · answer #3 · answered by TG 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I too am part "Native" American. I have no problem with scientific proof, which is stronger every day, that the pre- colombian inhabitants of the Americas were of Asian origin.
I think the people who get into a tizzy about it are simply people with some sort of chip on their shoulder who prefer to dwell in ignorance. A large part of my ancestry is Celtic also. Scientific study indicates that the Celts might have been in Asia before they were in Europe. Guess what that doesn't bother, nor does the overwhelming evidence that we humans all originated in Africa. Funny, there are people in Asia who do not wish to accept that homo sapiens did not evolve independently in Asia just as there are people who do not wish to accept that homo sapiens first arrived to America from Asia. Go figure!
2007-10-17 09:58:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
On Y! I have seen several natives who expressed the idea that their ancestors were Asian. DNA confirms this; the legends of many of the People (natives) confirms this. By paper trail, I have traced ancestry to the natives; by DNA to tribes plus Eskimos and Innuits.
No one really knows just how peoples came here, but there is no doubt that Polynesians mixed with Indians, and whites came "from the north" (Red Earth, White Lies) BEFORE Lief Erikson.
2007-10-17 10:05:40 · answer #5 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am "Native", Muscogee to be exact. I believe that we were "created" here in this land that is called America, and not descended from Asians that crossed the Land Bridge as the White Man's science says, for science can be skewed to "prove" whatever you want it to prove. Why don't Christians get flack for not believing in "Evolution?"
This is not a rant. Just my opinion.
2007-10-18 16:06:02 · answer #6 · answered by bigjfry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe thre is a person on this board that is Native American that takes disagreement with that. I haven't seen anyone else worrying about it.
2007-10-17 09:19:25 · answer #7 · answered by Shirley T 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not teed off about this but you aren't asian although you are of asian ancestry. It's just like I'm a descendant of Europeans but I'm not European.
2007-10-18 16:25:50 · answer #8 · answered by Judith 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I always thought of it too, but i did not say to anyone
2007-10-17 09:19:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋