Re: Native American (was Re: Postcards - 2nd set)

Are you saying that is where the Garden of Eden was? ;-) Art S. Kagel wrote: > Ian Wilson wrote: > >>> I'm not sure which one you mean. One is that you > >>> don't know this usage of Native American and simply mean "native > >>> English speaker". The other one is that you do know this usage and > >>> are making a clever comment on how most people in the USA are > >>> immigrants or descended from immigrants. > > > > > > Surely *all* people in the USA are descended from immigrants. It's just > > that a few of them are descended from people who immigrated 15,000 years > > ago. > > In that sense, every human not living in central Africa is an immigrant! > OK, I can accept that. > > Art S. Kagel