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2021-12-28 -Great Cultural Revolution

The Indians are coming - Racial Shifting in America

[Red State] Here’s a fun one for you. According to the latest U.S. Census, the Native American population in the United States grew by 86.5 percent between 2010 and 2020.

Yep, you read that right. Eighty-six percent!

But how could this be possible? In a piece for The Conversation, Circe Sturm, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts wrote that this is a rate of growth that "demographers say is impossible to achieve without immigration."

Well, it’s not likely that more Native Americans are entering the U.S. right? So, there has to be another explanation.

But, according to Sturm, this increase is occurring because "individuals who previously identified as white are now claiming to be Native American."

She also explains that "[t]his growing movement has been captured by terms like ’pretendian’ and ’wannabe.’"

The author refers to this phenomenon by what she calls "racial shifting."

Insert Elizabeth Warren and Rachel Dolezal jokes here.

But what is interesting is that the author points out that those choosing to identify as Native American are trying to move further from "whiteness." The author says that in her 14 years of researching this issue and interviewing "dozens of race-shifters" for her book, "Becoming Indian," she "learned that while some of these people have strong evidence of Native American ancestry, others do not."

She continued:

Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-28 06:13|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 So, it's self-identification and number noodling. Also, a big percentage increase in a tiny cohort.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-28 07:53|| 2021-12-28 07:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Which 'tribes' do they identify with? Those with lucrative enterprises that involve games of chance?

Snark O'The Day

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-12-28 07:56|| 2021-12-28 07:56|| Front Page Top

#3 The author refers to this phenomenon by what she calls "racial shifting."

Fix the typo. S/b "racial grifting"

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-28 08:04|| 2021-12-28 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Circe Sturm, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts

"Circe Sturm"? Located in Keep-Austin-Weird? Uh-huh.

Sounds like a stage name for a Nazi Witch. Like Ilsa, She-Wolf etc

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-28 08:08|| 2021-12-28 08:08|| Front Page Top

#5 #2 - WINNER!
Ding! Ding! Ding!

Posted by Frank G 2021-12-28 08:40|| 2021-12-28 08:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Warran, not Biden.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-12-28 13:04|| 2021-12-28 13:04|| Front Page Top

#7 There is also another type of Indian immigrant that is shifting the makeup of the American upper class.

Posted by Eohippus Throsing2556 2021-12-28 13:31|| 2021-12-28 13:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Whenever I have to fill out a form for any bureaucracy that asks what my ethnicity is, I always check the Native American box. It's not a lie. I was born here. That makes me a native.

Some of these bureaucracies are getting wise though. They've changed it from Native American to American Indian. But, hey, if men can identify as women I can identify as any ethnicity I want.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-12-28 14:35|| 2021-12-28 14:35|| Front Page Top

#9 I sometimes write in 'Vulcan'....

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-12-28 14:47|| 2021-12-28 14:47|| Front Page Top

#10 'Ferret'
or 'Rodent'

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-28 16:49|| 2021-12-28 16:49|| Front Page Top

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