Word: indianism
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...admission; and I had to cram into one of the uncomfortable seats upstairs. Sen, in his heavy academic robes, began brilliantly, with a joke about how he had just been pestered by a dim-witted immigration official at Heathrow Airport who couldn't grasp the notion that an Indian like Sen could be the Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University. From then on, things went downhill. As Sen began unraveling his theories of personal identity, I realized that I disagreed with everything he said. Within a few minutes, I wanted to leave. Only the suspicion that it would...
...mutual distrust between India and Pakistan is very great, and it may well be in the end impossible to reach a genuine détente without some third-party intervention as a mediator. The essential thing is to demilitarize the area. While you've got 900,000 Indian troops and 700,000 Pakistani troops plus the jihadis in the area, it becomes impossible to see anything that one could recognize as peace showing up there...
...surprised that you use the word "Indian," rather than Native American. Why that decision...
...epidemics, swept through these areas, depopulating them incredibly, so that people would move into areas that had already been depopulated, and were really unable to see what had been there. Following that, these ecosystems underwent huge change. So areas that had been previously been kept clear and full of Indian farms suddenly reforested. There was a tremendous tumult in a period of 200 years [c. 1500-1700]. The result of it was people just didn't know what had been there before. It was hidden from their view...
...couple of reasons. First, I think, without exception, every Indian I have spoken with uses that term. Second, "Native American" is a term that is used almost entirely in the United States and in Canada. Indians in Latin America and South America don't use that term. Finally, I just think there are some problems with the term. Everybody who's born in the Americas is a native American, right? For this reason, a lot of the American Indian movement activists rejected the term in favor of "Indian...