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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Where did you say you were from? #36518 07/26/2001 4:56 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta I found this in a Reuters report which appeared in the Jakarta Post this morning: Amnesty said 300 million indigenous people worldwide, including Australia's Aboriginal people and Europe's Gypsies or Roma, faced racial discrimination, impoverishment and marginalisation. For the full report, see http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010725/80/bzd09.html . Has indigenous changed its meaning while I wasn't looking? I was always under the impression it meant the people who'd always lived in a place as far back as anybody knew. Gypsies arrived in Europe from India (in the 14th or 15th century AD,if I remember correctly), so how can they be described as an indigenous people? Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Where did you say you were from? Bingley 07/26/2001 4:56 AM Re: Where did you say you were from? NicholasW 07/26/2001 7:07 AM Re: Where did you say you were from? belligerentyouth 07/26/2001 7:50 AM Re: Where did you say you were from? of troy 07/26/2001 3:21 PM Re: Where did you say you were from? wow 07/26/2001 7:25 PM Max Quordlepleen 07/26/2001 9:11 PM Bra-zil AnnaStrophic 07/26/2001 10:18 PM Re: Bra-zil tsuwm 07/26/2001 10:51 PM Re: Bra-zil NicholasW 07/27/2001 8:04 AM Re: Bra-zil rodward 07/27/2001 12:53 PM Re: Wel-sh Faldage 07/27/2001 12:56 PM Re: Wel-sh RhubarbCommando 07/27/2001 2:24 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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