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==Description==

==Description==

The term '''native''' can have many [[different]] social and [[political]] connotations, in [[different]] [[contexts]]. In some cases it is a neutral, descriptive term - as in stating that one is a native of a particular [[city]] or that a certain [[language]] is one's native language. However, in the [[context]] of colonialism - in particular, British colonialism - the term "natives", as applied to the inhabitants of colonies, assumed a disparaging and patronising sense, implying that the people concerned were incapable of taking care of themselves and in need of Europeans to [[administer]] their lives; therefore, these people resent the use of the term and consider it insulting, and at present Europeans usually avoid using it. Likewise, American Indians under the auspices of the American Indian movement loathe this term. Native American in the U.S. was a term first coined by the U.S. Census as a way to classify all American Indian tribes. And in the [[context]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism Nativism], in some periods a [[potent]] [[political]] [[force]], "natives" are defined as a (predominantly white) [[group]] deserving of a special privileged position in comparison to immigrants.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native]

The term '''native''' can have many [[different]] social and [[political]] connotations, in [[different]] [[contexts]]. In some cases it is a neutral, descriptive term - as in stating that one is a native of a particular [[city]] or that a certain [[language]] is one's native language. However, in the [[context]] of colonialism - in particular, British colonialism - the term "natives", as applied to the inhabitants of colonies, assumed a disparaging and patronising sense, implying that the people concerned were incapable of taking care of themselves and in need of Europeans to [[administer]] their lives; therefore, these people resent the use of the term and consider it insulting, and at present Europeans usually avoid using it. Likewise, American Indians under the auspices of the American Indian movement loathe this term. Native American in the U.S. was a term first coined by the U.S. Census as a way to classify all American Indian tribes. And in the [[context]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism Nativism], in some periods a [[potent]] [[political]] [[force]], "natives" are defined as a (predominantly white) [[group]] deserving of a special privileged position in comparison to immigrants.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native]

 

[[Category: Sociology]]

[[Category: Sociology]]