ANST - Ethnicity

[Ronnie]

>> >an Indian giver?
>> 
>> I think it was the French who did that ... 
>
>an Indian giver, i.e. one who gives to Indians and later takes it away.  In
other words, an American, not a Frenchman.

First, I apologize.  It was wrong of me to use another group to make my
point.  I did it solely to focus on how these things are interpreted.  I'm
grateful you rose to the bait and creatively offered a definition most folks
wouldn't have thought of.  

Historically, the term came about as a disparagement of Indians, i.e., that
Indians might give something to someone and then steal it away.  In our
modern times, I agree the term is now more to the shame of those who "gave"
what they thought was the most useless to those cultures, and then on
learning there was value in what they'd given, "gave" something they thought
was even more useless, and "took back" what those cultures had learned to
turn to prosperity.

Good lessons for all of us.  Again, I'm sorry for having used the French for
the exercise. 
Ronnie. 

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