Yeah Ancient Aliens has always been real weird, and I’m gonna be honest I’ve never heard of the Ancient Aryans thing so… yeah the similarities are weird for sure. Few things to note.
The Parthenon is Greek, the Romans built the coliseum — also, the Native Americans didn’t have a unified name for the Americas. If it makes you feel better you can say indigenous people of the American continents, or even Indigenous Americans, but calling them strictly American is genuinely awful.
My mom was born in Keams Canyon, and I’ve visited. If you went there calling the people there Americans they would not appreciate it. They’re Hopi, or maybe Navajo.
Amerigo Vespucci was a genocide collaborator, in case anyone’s wondering why it would be awful to call the indigenous people of the continents of the western hemisphere “Americans”
it’s referring to a people using the language of their oppressor. each indigenous group has their own signifier like “First Nation People,” “Indigenous American,” “Native American,” or “American Indian.” you’re going to have to make a choice about how to refer to people, but as @Jax@sh.itjust.works said, about the only wrong answer is “American”
Yeah Ancient Aliens has always been real weird, and I’m gonna be honest I’ve never heard of the Ancient Aryans thing so… yeah the similarities are weird for sure. Few things to note.
The Parthenon is Greek, the Romans built the coliseum — also, the Native Americans didn’t have a unified name for the Americas. If it makes you feel better you can say indigenous people of the American continents, or even Indigenous Americans, but calling them strictly American is genuinely awful.
My mom was born in Keams Canyon, and I’ve visited. If you went there calling the people there Americans they would not appreciate it. They’re Hopi, or maybe Navajo.
Amerigo Vespucci was a genocide collaborator, in case anyone’s wondering why it would be awful to call the indigenous people of the continents of the western hemisphere “Americans”
it’s referring to a people using the language of their oppressor. each indigenous group has their own signifier like “First Nation People,” “Indigenous American,” “Native American,” or “American Indian.” you’re going to have to make a choice about how to refer to people, but as @Jax@sh.itjust.works said, about the only wrong answer is “American”