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‘Time’ to Gov. Haley: All you Indians look alike

Apr. 6, 2012 10:13am

It really isn’t clear if this was supposed to be a joke. In an interview with Time South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, an American Indian, was asked if she would give “a slightly bigger tip” to Sikh cab drivers in New York City.

“In New York City, which you’re visiting for a couple of days, a lot of our taxi drivers are Sikhs. If you get one, are you going to give them a slightly bigger tip?” she was asked. Haley, 40, was raised as a Sikh but says she converted to Christianity in her mid 20s.

With an eye roll and a laugh for good sport Haley said, “I give the same tip to everyone.”

To be fair, the woman asking the questions is British. And you know how they are.

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  • SticklerforAccuracy
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 7:44am

    BTW Britain has the second largest Sikh population on earth, we are among the most prevalent minority you will find there. So I dont know how the British ‘are’….

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  • The War Room
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 4:34pm

    Belinda Luscombe is Austrialian, not British.

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  • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 11:10am

    NOT “American Indian”. That phrase refers to the aboriginal nations of North America. Nikki Haley is, if you absolutely MUST hyphenate the term “American”, a “Hindi-American”. Far, far better would be to say that she is an American of Hindi descent, or if you must, an American of Indian descent.

    The word Indian existed prior to the founding of the modern nation-state of India, to refer to the aboriginal peoples of North America based on a report sent back to Spanish King Ferdinand by Christopher Columbus in which he described the people he met in the Caribbean as “un guer in dios”, “a people of god”. From that phrase was distilled the abbreviation “in dian”.

    The modern nation-state of India was itself distilled from a subcontinent full of disparate tribal regions. One of the largest tribes were the Hindi in their region named Hindustan. Somehow, the pre-existing name “Indian” for the red-skinned people of North America got hung around the necks of the brown-skinned people of the subcontinent based on the similar sounding name, and India was born. Until that point, the subcontinent was referred to, if it was referred to at all in the aggregate, as Hindustan.

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    • SticklerforAccuracy
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 7:42am

      Firstly, I have no Idea what you are talking about. Your sources of Native American and Indian history are nonsense (the Hindi tribe, really?) I dare you to find one Indian who belongs to the Hindi tribe. The name India is an exonym (ie, a name formed by non Indians). India does have many ethnic groups and subnations under it, however there has always been a native name for the whole country, it is Bharat. Bharat is still the official name. However, as long as we have had a native name, we have also been known by some variant of the name India which derives from the river Sindh which used to be the Western frontier of India. in Persian, the name Sindh becomes Hind, and it is from here the name Hind came to Arabia and became India in Greek and Latin. Hindustan is just a persian word than means “land of Hind”. Hindi is the national language of India, not a tribe. By the way Nikki Haley’s parents might speak Hindi also (as most north indians do) but they are ethnically punjabi, and their language is Punjabi. They are not from the “tribe of Hindi”. As to the profound inaccuracies you have expressed on the matters of how Native Americans were given the misnomer of Indian, I will let someone else correct you.

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