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Aboriginal: Taller Or Shorter?

Aboriginal: Taller or Shorter?

How do you feel when standing next to someone who is Aboriginal: Taller or Shorter?

Shorter Taller Aboriginal

I am "Aboriginal", and we vary in height. I, for one, am rather short. However, I have native family members who are even shorter than me. Some tribes are known for producing taller people, and some for producing shorter people.

Aboriginal: Taller Or Shorter? History & Civil Business Politics

Sorry for the misunderstanding, this questions is psychological more than physical. It is meant to ask it in this way:

Next to an Aboriginal do you feel more confident or less confident, in the lead or overpowered?

Shorter Taller Aboriginal

Oh, haha, don't I feel dumb now?

Well, it's hard to apply that to me because I am american indian. Standing next to other natives, I guess that means I feel equal. But since I am mixed-native, when I am in the prescence of full-bloods, I feel a little "shorter". Like I'm not worth as much as they.

I espeically feel less confidant in the presence of native elders. They are so much older and wiser.

Shorter Taller Aboriginal

No need to feel dumb, I have similar questions elsewhere on the Board and Members tend to answer in physical terms. I noticed you referred to yourself as American Indian, I thought that was not as appreciated as 'Aboriginal' or simply 'Indian'? Why should a pure blood Aboriginal make you feel 'shorter'? Do tribes tend to stereotype those who are mixed verses those who are pure?

Aboriginal: Taller Or Shorter?

I will have to say being a huge 5'-7" male , I have never noticed it made much of a difference standing beside a shorter or taller person. The heritage of the person never made the effect different for me.

My grandfather was a blacksmith and some of the lads he trained were imposing in the physical stature as a child and perhaps that is why a height differences impact so little on me.

I guess if I knew they came from some tropical tribe of cannibals then I might feel some fear.

Aboriginal Taller Shorter

It really just depends on the person. I prefer American Indian to avoid political confusion. You see, on all of our treaties with the United States, we are called "Indian" not "Aboriginal" or anything like that. So I fear if we all adopted something that doesn't have "Indian" in it, the government could cut out benefits or say all the treaties are void because we changed our name or something stupid like that. Sometimes I say Indian when I'm typing fast, but I don't really like that because I'm not from India. One thing you will notice is that it's usually ok for one native to call another native an Indian, but not ok for nonnatives to call us Indians. It's just one of those things, you know?
Aborginal makes me think of the Aboriginees from Australia, , so I don't use that. Native American is a term widely used by New Age wannabes, so we don't really use that anyway.

I try to stick with just saying Native. Nice, simple, easy to remember.

And to answer your other question, that would be a resounding yes. As a mixed-blood native, I have probably faced more racism than any other race in this country. We mixes are not fully accepted by native people and we are not fully accepted by white people. There are always exceptions to the rule, but mixed-bloods are generally looked down upon by full-blood and half-blood natives.