My job incorrectly thinks I'm Native American, should I tell them?
I don't want to dox myself, but I've been at my job for 5+ years. I guess either my boss or I fat fingered something while I was on boarding, cuz just now I was going over some paperwork and.. As far as my job is concerned I'm Native American. I am very much white. Nobody ever brought it up.
I couldn't find an easy way to change it and I'd rather not talk to HR if it's not a big deal. So, forget about it? Call HR?
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I'm Australian and the one that really gets me is when Americans refer to indigenous Australians as "African American" because of their skin colour. They're in no way from Africa or America, but nice job appropriating our native people.
How often do Americans refer to aboriginals as African Americans? This is not a common situation.
It happens enough for me to have noticed it a few times. It probably helps if you work with Americans in Australia.
It happens enough for me to have noticed it a few times. It probably helps if you work with Americans.
It's like people overcorrecting and using "whom" when "who" really would be correct. Ditto "you and I" vs "you and me". People get corrected enough times to be embarrassed, but still don't have any interest in correct usage, so they just blanket apply what they think is the rule rather than trying to actually learn any of its nuances. It's not a perfect analogy, but I can imagine people just reverting to "African-American" as a no-thought safe bet when referring to brown people.
Aren't you kind of appropriating Indigenous Australians? I mean they're not "your" native people, right?
Native Australians are not native people of Australia?
Yes they're native to that land, but they're not Zik's Indigenous Australians! That's what I meant about appropriating them, the way they wrote that was just too ironic.
He was using "we" to refer to his country, obviously
"Appropriate" in terms of taking literal possesion of something - "our" as in "my bed", "our car". I am fairly sure it's a joke, read the wording again.
Right, and therefore appropriating the natives, whose land he is on. That is the irony. I'm in the US, and they're not our Native Americans. That's just not something you can say.