Politically Correct (Not!)
By Amber
@AmbiePam (85680)
United States
May 19, 2016 7:46pm CST
I had a doctor whom I loved. He decided to take a pay cut, and work for less in a Native American clinic (I never say Indian (thanks Columbus)). When he left, he said the clinic was working on opening to all races, not just Native Americans. I hadn't checked in a year so I called the clinic and here's our conversation:
Me: "Do you take patients who are non Native American?"
Clinic: "Who?"
Me: "Do you take Caucasians?"
Clinic: "What?"
Me: "Do you see white people?!"
Clinic:"Oh! No."
Anyway, I found this funny, but not nearly as funny as my dad did. He couldn't quit laughing, and when I thought he was finished he'd start laughing all over again.
*If you don't understand why it's funny then you probably aren't American. But perhaps other countries experience similar events and you understand very well.
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@AmbiePam (85680)
• United States
20 May 16
Native Americans have a whole different set of rules because this is their land and we just came and took it. They essentially get free health care, better chance at getting college paid, it's easier to adopt, they even have their own police on reservations. This is country wide, not just Oklahoma. At 1/8 Native American I actually qualify, but you have to be able to prove you're on "the roll", and we don't have a card to prove it. DNA tests don't matter. I have a friend, and she and her family are all redheads, yet they have the card, and thus qualify for Native American benefits, just being 1/8 "Indian".
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@topffer (42156)
• France
21 May 16
I understand how funny it is, however your speaker would be sent to a court and jailed for racial discrimination here. To not segregate anyone, we are also cultivating the art of periphrasis. In French to be politically correct you should never say
-"a blind person" but "a person that not see" ;
-"a black man" but "a colored man" ;
-"a cleaner" but "a surface technician"...
And if you are a politician politically correct you will not say :
-"a bombing" but "a surgical strike" ;
-"a sending of troops" but "a humanitarian interference" ;
-"a felon" but "a victim of the society"...
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@topffer (42156)
• France
21 May 16
@ElicBxn If you consider them like a different country, it might be understandable somewhere if they subsidize this clinic. But they have to be logical and should also forbid to non Native Americans to play in their casinos if they do not want them in their clinics
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@Cristi_Ichim (3675)
• Bucharest, Romania
21 May 16
@ElicBxn It is still weird though
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
21 May 16
I am a native American (dating back to my ancestors arriving on this continent in the 1600s). But I am not a Native American. There are no races of human who are Native to the Americas. I prefer to refer to those who migrated to this continent first as First Inhabitants. That more truly reflects their status.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
21 May 16
@AmbiePam I am not a fan of the name, but find it interesting that after all these decades it has only been recently that people have decided to let it offend them. Keep in mind, nothing is inherently offensive. One can only be offended by something if one chooses to be. For years, no one chose to be offended by the name.
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@cindiowens (5120)
• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
21 May 16
Well I am not Indian, but I am certainly Native American. I was born and raised here, and have never travelled to another country.
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@GardenGerty (157665)
• United States
21 May 16
I have my Indian card, I could probably go. I think it is a shame that we are so divided. I definitely look caucasian. I am not sure if I get the full humor of this but it is Oklahoma and anything can happen. I think I could get services at a clinic here that serves native Americans along with poor people.
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@crossbones27 (48480)
• Mojave, California
21 May 16
I think it is kind of funny also and if more people would laugh at these things the world probably not hate each other so much.
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@GardenGerty (157665)
• United States
21 May 16
Love your comment. I will also state that I do qualify for services but would not do so unless I had absolutely no choice. These clinics often receive the worst options for medication and are chaotic to say the least, around here.
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@AmbiePam (85680)
• United States
27 May 16
They can't. Just the ones affiliated with Native American reservations. And it's just them, not all businesses. Plus, you're usually not going to want the doctors they get. Since it doesn't pay much getting a good doctor to work there is rare, but when it happens, it's a blessing.
There are a lot of doctors I can't see because they don't take my insurance. Hospitals have to take anybody, but doctor's offices only take certain insurance plans.
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@GardenGerty (157665)
• United States
21 May 16
If you have a tribal membership that indicates that you had an ancestor on the Dawes Rolls of 1907 you are eligible for services if I understand correctly. I am much less Native American than @AmbiePam but I have documentation that shows my degree of Indian Blood and also I am registered to vote absentee ballots in a tribal election.
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@AmbiePam (85680)
• United States
21 May 16
@GardenGerty Yes, that's much better put than I can explain it.
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@UR_Forever_Raja (985)
• India
21 May 16
You know what made me smile ?
when I thought he was finished he'd start laughing all over again.
Racist!!!! Doctors are suppose to take all kind of people irrespective of their colour -- their gender -- their culture.
Racist!!!! Doctors are suppose to take all kind of people irrespective of their colour -- their gender -- their culture.2 people like this
@LeaPea2417 (36504)
• Toccoa, Georgia
21 May 16
I get it, lol, it is funny, ha ha!
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
21 May 16
I just had to laugh. Now how 'bout them red necks?
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