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Originally Posted by Monkey Wrench

cultural, I remember bien in kindergarten, they had a somg to teach kids how to count ot ten, it went i little 2 little three little,,, and in the playgrounds we'd sing well as the "sitting on the fence" ryme,
I grew up with a lot of indiginous frineds, we had not yet ever heard the term indiginous, they were called Indians back then it was not an insult to anyone, and there were also east indians, now the word is south asians, and indian is currently an insult to some , but it depends upon interpretation.

I went back there and attemted to call one of my good old frineds indiginous, he loooked at me weirdly,, he said don't call me that, ho woke! I am an Indian.. What happened was the language changed. what also happend was the divide in culture became less tolerant due to the focus upon separate rights which I always forund morally questionable,

My wife is into mysteries (books, movies, TV) and one of the famous Agatha Christie movies (and story) is "And Then There Were None".

Ten strangers on an isolated island off the coast of Devon are accused of past crimes, and are killed one by one according to the lines of a popular rhyme.

The book was first published in the United Kingdom by Collins Crime Club in November 1939 as "Ten Little N-words", after an 1869 minstrel song that forms the central element of the story. It continued to be published in the UK under that title until 1985, when it became "And Then There Were None".

The first American edition, published in 1940, was called And Then There Were None from the start, and has mostly continued under that title, although between 1964 and 1986 it was published by Pocket Books of New York as Ten Little Indians.

In both the US and later UK editions the text was modified to avoid the racial epithet, referring throughout to "Ten Little Indians" or "Ten Little Soldiers".