Indian

My reaction: I was immediately split in twain.

My response: I felt equally drawn by the denotation of those to whom we refer in a PC manner as Native Americans and those of the Asian sub-continent. This mental rending seems to have masked any other reactions I may have had to the word and I am usually fairly good at noticing these things if I am prepared to do so. I know some people who are at least partly Native American and they seem to be anything but unanimous about the use of the word Indian to refer to them. US'ns normally do go through some verbal gyrations when using the term in a way that we feel may be ambiguous.