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Subject: Interesting point, that.

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Ed Harris (Venezia)

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Date Posted: 16:14:14 12/06/04 Mon
In reply to: Ben.M(UK) 's message, "British colonialism" on 13:44:23 12/06/04 Mon

In the first few decades after the British occupation of Canada, I understand that the British colonists continued to call themselves "British", and only used the word "Canadians" to refer to the French, and did so with the same intonation as, in other parts of the Empire, people used to say "natives".

Extending this argument logically, and also pandering to the anti-colonial anti-land-stealing element in Australian political society, it could be suggested that the only inhabitants of Australia who can really be called "Australians" in any meaningful sense are the aborigines, and therefore that the term "Australian" should be removed from the descendents of the evil land-grabbers, and that they should be given a different name. In this context, what name do you think could possibly be appropriate? Oo, I can't think...

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[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Second Nations?
Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 16:17:56 12/06/04 Mon [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Perhaps "pelagorigines"? Or "thalassorigines"?
Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 16:58:53 12/06/04 Mon [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Sorry, hideous compounds...
Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 17:05:45 12/06/04 Mon Thalassorigines doesn't work. Let me revise those to Pelagorigines and Transmaritanians and, if we aren't being PC, Scelestians. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]