[Wikipedia-l] Re: Minority/majority question

Sat Jul 31 15:20:55 UTC 2004

Austin Hair wrote:
>>An example from the English Wikipedia were common usage is overruled by
>>offensiveness: 'Eskimo' is a very common name for a people who live in the
>>North American Arctic. In fact it is probably the most common name for them (at
>>least in the U.S.). But they consider it to be highly offensive. Therefore our
>>article about them is at [[Inuit]] (a widely used alternate name - esp in
>>Canada). 
> 
> 
> Unfortunately for this example, not all Eskimo are Inuit, and by and
> large anthropologists still stick with the more accurate definition,
> regardless of social stigma.  (Thankfully, Nelson Mandella hasn't been
> re-styled an "African-American" on en yet.  I'm waiting for the day...)

Ah !
See the interesting debate on fr, about how we should call americans 
people from the united states

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia%3APrise_de_d%C3%A9cision_Am%C3%A9ricain%2C_%C3%89tasunien%2C_%C3%89tatsunien%2C_%C3%89tats-Unien%2C_%C3%89tats-Unisien

Current options are

Américain, Américaine

États-Unien, États-Unienne

Étatsunien, Étatsunienne

Étasunien, Étasunienne

États-Unisien, États-Unisienne

États-Unis d'Américain, États-Unis d'Américaine

Unistatique, Unistatique

Unistatien, unistatienne

Bushmen

Unistaçais, unistaçaises

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Admitedly, the last couple ones might be jokes

Perhaps...