Ethnicity: Native American

One of the profile selections allows you to state your Ethnicity. This must be open to interpretation as lots of black girls say they are Caucasian. Another choice that is mistaken is Native American.
Last I checked Native American was for the race of people who were already living here when settlers came to America from Europe, took their land and pushed them into reservations.

For clarification... None of those 'Indians' had blonde hair and blue eyes. So if your great grandfather came from Germany or Poland, Caucasian would be the correct selection and not Native American.

That's my PSA (Public Service Announcement) for the month.

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I guess White women who put this mistake being native with being born in the USA,or having at least three generations born in America.
Three generations doesn't qualify as indigenous or aboriginal.
To your blog
Definition of American Native:
Wonder what dictionary says?

I’m both
Finnish English

Born in America
My great great great grandfather an Indian chief

My dads family white & medium skinned

I have always wanted to research my bloodline
I have a picture of the Chiefs grave stone
Name etc for proof
I am told we are related to George Washington
First American President
Picture evidence
Dad has his features hair
And many with his first name
Dozen generations
Also told our family tree we came over on the Mayflower ship Christopher Columbus
My Cousin Joan
English History Bible Author Accounting Scholar
Told me so brevity limited space & time
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If your great grandfather was blond and blue eyed from Poland and your great grandmother was Native American, you might be blonde and blue eyed, but culturally more Native American than Polish.

Why would their ethnicity your choice rather than their own?
Many believe they are Native American if they were born in America.
Since the Ethnicity isn't a choice but genetics, we aren't to decide which side to take.
If we are mixed then we are mixed, it is a choice to say what we are a mixture of.
My choice today.

I'm a black lesbian.
Hope to make many lesbian friends...cheering

Howzit Ten.
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From the trusty Oxford:

Dictionaries vary, but I've found that 'Native American' refers to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas... They inhabited the Americas before the arrival of European settlers in the 15th century.

Thanks to Columbus who thought he reached India, called them Indians.

I was told that the US government relocated many African slaves to Indian reservations. That created mixed blood African Americans, many of which who can prove their lineage are entitled the same reparations as the Native Americans.
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Soooo, belonging to the East Indian or the Central Asian ethnic group is just a question of choice?!
No genetic differences at allconfused
African cultural and European cultural background is a choice too ?!
If my parents are black and I was born in an European country, does that mean I can identify as White Caucasian?
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