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by thaumasiotes 770 days ago
Just think about it from the other direction.

To most Australian Aborigines, whites are called "Hollanders".

How much are you offended by that?

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> How much are you offended by that?

Tremendously :P where I'm from "hollander" is a type of pipe fitting.

Well, you should have discovered Australia first then.
.. but I am thinking about if from the other direction.

From the perspective of the non-Inuit Eskimos.