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hestermofet said:

Why do you feel it is necessary to lump two unlike cultures and nations together with the same term?

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Because there are many situations where you need to refer to a broader group of people without enumerating each one individually.

There's a reason we have a term for "Scandinavian" in addition to "Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish".

Same here: we are talking about people who have traditionally lived in northern latitudes of the North American continent. The language needs a collective term for that.

hestermofet said:

I don't get why they need to be stuck with an offensive term because you are too lazy to distinguish them apart when talking about them.

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I get the point about it being offensive. But the answer isn't to eliminate that term, but to replace it with something that's non offensive.