hey guys friendly reminder from your fave Canadian that esk*mo is a slur so please don’t use it!
I see it usually in the context of “esk*mo kisses” which may pop up when people talk about their ships and their headcanon, but it means “snow eaters” in cree and is a slur against Inuit people so please just don’t use it!
and I would appreciate if u reblogged this because people outside Canada don’t seem to know this for the most part
Also if you want to refer to ‘‘eskimo kisses’‘ and not use that term the Inuit term for it is ‘‘kunik’‘. It’s a traditional greeting usually between relatives or a child and an adult, although it’s a little different from nose kisses so most Canadians call it ‘‘Inuit kiss’‘ and I’ve heard other people call it ‘‘bunny kisses’’. Either way there’s no excuse to use ‘‘eskimo’‘ in this context or another.
hi, Canadian here needing to correct the etymology at the beginning of this post, Esk*mo comes from the Ojibwa word ashkimeq which means ‘eaters of raw meat’. Additionally, Esk*mo isn’t only used as a slur against Inuit people but also against Iñupiat and Yupik people.
tl;dr just don’t use the word 🙂 the indigenous people of the Arctic are real people, not Halloween costumes/cartoon characters
I had an argument about this with an American friend. Cheese and cracker please dont’ use this!
Maybe it’s different now, but when I was a kid going to school in California my teachers used the word esk*mo as if that were an official culture name, in the same category as Navaho or Cree. People outside Canada really have no idea it’s a slur, and it’s a huge failing in the American school system.
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