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Saying "British Columbian" is too offensive (tnc.news)

submitted 7 months ago by uzi@lemmy.ca to c/britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca

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Remember kids, geographical grammer is offensive.

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

It's a pretty shitty colonial term with no real relevance today... but unless you come up with a better name for the province and get buy in from people (which will be fucking hard) it's the word.

That said, this article is way overblown... this isn't a public mandate but instead pulled from an internal style guide and, yea, not talking about British Columbians when speaking to indigenous groups is probably a good idea.

[–] Epilektoi_Hoplitai@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

I think there was a proposal floated with the idea of a new name in Chinook, "Illaheechuck", but it failed to - as you say - get buy in from the public at large. I like the idea of a name in Chinook, though - what better bridge between native and settler than the language they mutually created?

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