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["Terry West" <WEST@EDU-SUU-CENTRUM.CN.SUU.EDU>]

> If words have no power, why is it that
> the US and Canadian delegations to the UN have been so insistent on
> referring to indigenous peoples as "tribe" and not "nation"? Perhaps so
> they can't be recognized as sovereign by others? 

Right on!  I'm always amused by the number of people in debate who 
seem anxious to claim that words really don't mean anything.  I'd 
better not hear any of their debaters making T. arguments :-)

Terry West
Southern Utah

> 
> I don't understand why language reforms trade off with everything else we
> can do to help the world. If someone would please explain the argument I'd
> appreciate it. If it's the backlash argument though, tough. I have little
> respect for people who respond to sexist language critiques with "do we
> have to call short people attitudinally challenged too?"
> 
> 
> 
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