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Could you call someone an Eskimo? Detailed answer Directory / Big encyclopedia. Questions for quiz and self-education Did you know? Could you call someone an Eskimo? The term "Eskimo" covers a number of different groups and is not necessarily (as some believe) an insult. Eskimos include people living in the high Arctic regions of Canada, Alaska and Greenland. The word itself belongs to the language of the Cree and Algonquin Indian tribes and has several possible meanings: "one who speaks a foreign language", "one who comes from another land" or "one who eats raw meat". In Canada (where the term Inuit is politically correct) it is considered rude to call someone an Eskimo, although the Alaskan Eskimos are quite happy with such a name. Moreover, many of them prefer just the term "Eskimo", since they are categorically not Inuit - a people living mainly in the northern part of Canada and some parts of Greenland. Calling the Kalaallite in Greenland, the Inuvialulite in Canada, and the Inyupiat, Yupiget, Yuplite, and Alutiite in Alaska "Inuit" is like calling all blacks "Nigerians" and all whites "Germans." The Yushki living in Siberia and southwest Alaska don't even know what "Inuit" means. And that means, by the way, "the people"; although the word "Yupik" (Yupik) even outdid him - it means "a real person." The languages of the Eskimo-Aleut family are related to each other, but are in no way connected with other languages of the planet. The Inuit language, which is developing quite actively, is spoken in the northern regions of Alaska and Canada, as well as in Greenland, where it is considered official and is taught in schools. Known as Inupiaq and Inuktitut, the Inuit language has only three vowels and no adjectives. In the US, the Inuit language has been banned for seventy years. Eskimos buy refrigerators to keep their food cool, and if they need to count past twelve, they have to switch to Danish. They don't "rub their noses" when they say hello. Most Eskimos get angry at such suggestions. Kunik is a kind of gentle and affectionate (as opposed to sexual) sniffing, mostly practiced between mother and child, but sometimes between spouses. In some Eskimo languages, the concepts of "kissing" and "sniffing" are conveyed by the same word. In 1999, the Canadian Eskimos achieved their own statehood: they were given a fifth of the territory of Canada (the second largest country in the world). Nunavut is one of the youngest nation-states; in Inuit it means "our land". Five people per car, all the Eskimos in the world could fit into the parking lot at Los Angeles International Airport. In Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, more people use a computer than in any locality in Canada. It also has the highest per capita suicide rate in all of North America. The growth of the average Eskimo is 1,62 m, the average life expectancy is 39 years. Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson Random interesting fact from the Great Encyclopedia: Where did the word bastard come from? The word "bastard" comes from the verb "fornicate" and originally meant only the illegitimate offspring of a purebred animal. Over time, in biology, this word was replaced by the term "hybrid", but it became abusive in relation to people.
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