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by chimeracoder
4139 days ago
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> It's like the American usage of Indian tribe names for naming sports teams and Army helicopters, that's not done out of disrespect What does it mean to say that "it's not done out of disrespect", when it's done even despite the objections of the ethnic group in question? In this particular case, I can assure you that many Sherpa people very strongly object to the use of the word "Sherpa" as a synonym for "guide", and they do indeed feel it is very disrespectful. |
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I thought I addressed that with part you omitted quoting, "although there are of course the inevitable malcontents."
Who speaks for these people? Have they ever submitted these sorts of questions to a vote?
As long as e.g. there's a reasonable number of Apache tribes-members who are proud our biggest, baddest, proven in combat attack helicopter is named after them, I don't give a [expletive deleted] about the malcontents, most especially including the SJW crowd.
And if Sherpa has mutated into simply "guide", that's also addressed, in my "I can't speak for post-70s" qualification. Given your closeness to that situation, are all or even most of the "Sherpas" upset with all the connotations the word had accumulated in English over the decades? If you claim the latter, how do you know?