Sam Smith -A few years ago I noted that when I started as a journalist in the 1950s only half of all reporters in the US had more than a high school education. Even on Capitol Hill I concealed the fact that I had gone to Harvard as it would have been a negative in getting along with sources and other journalists. In the 1970s there only about 20,00 new MBAs each year. Now there are 200,000.
One effect of this change has been a significant alteration in liberal language. Without noticing it, liberals increasingly use words and phrases that reflect academic training rather the common speak of those they're trying to convince. A classic example is "LGBTQ" which is based on the intellectual and bureaucratic tendency to initialize phenomena, rather than using a more slang-like phrases like "intersex" or "altsex."
The same is true of Indigenous People Day instead of Native People Day, which is why I use the latter. As one of my high school teachers told us, "Speaka United States." Among other things it makes for better politics.
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"Native" means a person born in a certain area. I am a native to North America. i am no an aboriginal, though. Native is a mis-used term when referring to aboriginals, as aboriginals.
I hate "Indigenous Peoples Day" as absurdly esoteric--and too hard to say. But. My alternative is First Nations Day. That respects the cultures of the people who were self-governed rather well before they were over-run.
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