Maybe it is time for an update?

[Brian37]

I’ve read that there’s a move to reclassify all such peoples as ‘aborigines’, with appropriate modifiers (Australian aborigine, American aborigine, etc). While more technically correct than ‘Native American’, I don’t see it catching on.

Boru

 I have been razing my friend today for pointing this language out, trust me, he was laughing. It is the same reaction I get when I admit that Washington's NFL team needs to go. 

I literally joked with him that he needed to get off rotary phones and the first version of Windows.

And don't get me started about my trip to Australia. My late friend Bob's sister and her husband use the same BS excuses as to why Aboriginals are lazy. Bob always knew they were full of shit, but you don't get to pick family. 

I kid you not, I spent 5 days on a road trip with my late friend's sister who spent time bitching about how Aboriginals were lazy, only to end up at a shop dedicated to Aboriginal art owned by a female Aboriginal, ignoring the fact in that same trip, she had no problem promoting a Polish German artist friend whom we spent a night with at a party living on the same island.

It was everything I took to bite my lip. I was in the middle of nowhere, and if she had dumped me, I would have been fucked. I still needed to get back home. But trust me even my best friend agreed with me, the guy I paid for because Bob was our mutual friend.

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"Aboriginals are lazy" was her argument. But she takes us to a business owned by female Aboriginal.