The linked Wikipedia article [1] states that there are three cultural groups and all of them have individuals who consider “Eskimo” somewhat to rather to very offensive.
As someone also living in Canada, we unfortunately have a vocal minority that wants to feign offence at anything it can find to criticize. Ignore them.
Thanks for raising this.
In our target markets (SG, HK, Asia) this has not been an issue as majority of people are not aware of this.
But we will take this into account as we expand down the road.
legostormtroopr|4 years ago
Eskimo isn't an offensive word, and is only considered inappropriate when its used to refer to Inuit peoples. Which this isn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo
brudgers|4 years ago
[1]: at this time.
version_five|4 years ago
C19is20|4 years ago
biztos|4 years ago
The name is super witty and probably nobody in SG/HK cares, but I don’t think the people generally called Eskimos like being called that.
Then again, Volkswagen doesn’t get flak for selling Tuaregs as far as I can tell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_people
raphco|4 years ago
unknown|4 years ago
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