The term INDIAN is eurocentric and very offensive

[Indus Pakistan]

By the way most Americans, Canadians, British, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish are literally from the same mother. It's -

• George Bush the Brit
• George Bush the Yank
• George Bush the Canuck [Canadian]
• George Bush the Ozzie [Australian]
• George Bush the Kiwi [New Zealand]
• George Bush the Paddy [Irish]

Yet are all jealously flying differant flags and touting differant identities even if that involves spliting one hair. Yet I see western travelers cross the Whaga border and cry out" gee it looks the same". That of course does not apply to the busy lines slicing Europe into nations or North America with it's ruler drawn line between USA and Canada.

 

[Juggernaut_Flat_Plane_V8]

That people of the subcontinent are painted in broadstrokes regarding identity is down to two reasons and two reasons only:

1) Economic poverty..Unless you break into $5,000 GDP per Capita middle income level, nobody gives two hoots about the various distinctions within the subcontinent

2) The 800 lb Gorilla in the room..Two Nation Theory of MA Jinnah and Iqbal..We were reduced to mere Hindus and Muslims by these two giants of the last century ..Below is a small compendium



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In Muhammad Ali Jinnah's All India Muslim League presidential address delivered in Lahore, on March 22, 1940, he explained:

It is extremely difficult to appreciate why our Hindu friends fail to understand the real nature of Islam and Hinduism. They are not religions in the strict sense of the word, but are, in fact, different and distinct social orders, and it is a dream that the Hindus and Muslims can ever evolve a common nationality, and this misconception of one Indian nation has troubles and will lead India to destruction if we fail to revise our notions in time. The Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs, litterateurs. They neither intermarry nor interdine together and, indeed, they belong to two different civilizations which are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions. Their aspect on life and of life are different. It is quite clear that Hindus and Mussalmans derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different epics, different heroes, and different episodes. Very often the hero of one is a foe of the other and, likewise, their victories and defeats overlap. To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority, must lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any fabric that may be so built for the government of such a state.
— [49]

In 1944, Jinnah said:

We maintain and hold that Muslims and Hindus are two major nations by any definition or test of a nation. We are a nation of hundred million and what is more, we are a nation with our own distinctive culture and civilization, language and literature, art and architecture, names and nomenclature, sense of values and proportions, legal laws and moral codes, customs and calendar, history and tradition, and aptitude and ambitions. In short, we have our own outlook on life and of life.

In an interview with the British journalist Beverley Nichols, he said in 1943:

Islam is not only a religious doctrine but also a realistic code of conduct in terms of every day and everything important in life: our history, our laws and our jurisprudence. In all these things, our outlook is not only fundamentally different but also opposed to Hindus. There is nothing in life that links us together. Our names, clothes, food, festivals, and rituals, all are different. Our economic life, our educational ideas, treatment of women, attitude towards animals, and humanitarian considerations, all are very different.

In May 1947, he took an entirely different approach when he told Mountbatten, who was in charge of British India's transition to independence:

Your Excellency doesn't understand that the Punjab is a nation. Bengal is a nation. A man is a Punjabi or a Bengali first before he is a Hindu or a Muslim. If you give us those provinces you must, under no condition, partition them. You will destroy their viability and cause endless bloodshed and trouble.

Mountbatten replied:

Yes, of course. A man is not only a Punjabi or a Bengali before he is a Muslim or Hindu, but he is an Indian before all else. What you're saying is the perfect, absolute answer I've been looking for. You've presented me the arguments to keep India united.

[50]

 

[Indus Pakistan]

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[KurtisBrian]

Europeans do the same to us people of Indian subcontinent. Supposedly we are all one brown skinned, curry munching race called the "Indian". We should be offended that the different races, ethnicities and cultures in this continent are not recognized for who they are by burying all the identities under the catch-all eurocentric word 'Indian'.

Happens everywhere.
It is just as bad for Europeans. Most of the men in Europe come from Central Asia and are cow herding steppe nomads NOT Europeans.
Abroad Canadians often get mistaken for US citizens. Some put on flags to show they are not US citizens.
Foreigners living in ABCANz or EU nations often changed their names to hide, "fit-in" or link themselves to the people of said nations (see how UK PM Boris Johnson family changed their surname? Many "Jews" did the same thing in the USA. Negroes use Nordic names they are not Nordic. Using African names would link them to Africa they don't want that)
Plenty of Asians and Negroes in the USA call themselves ethnicity/nationality-American. ie Korean-American or African-American to try and show they are of America but not like Americans.

That is just how it is.
Maybe people who poke at minor things will manage to stir up ethnic violence in Europe, East/SE Asia and ABCANz nations like we see/saw in Yugoslavia, Africa, South Asia and Ireland.
btw Chinese RED men were NEVER of the NORTH. NEVER.