Indians/Quechua.

• Author: Salinas, Saul
• Position: UPFRONT - Letter to the editor

From time to time I had the opportunity of reading your excellent magazine and its beautiful articles about the beauty and natural richness of the different countries. I am not a subscriber but I read your magazine when I was living in South America. I want to congratulate you for putting the accent in the title and every time you write the word America, because that is the way we write it in Spanish (Castellano). Because I am fully aware your magazine goes to every corner in the Americas, I fail to understand why you still write every measure in pounds, inches, or miles when, except for the United States, we all use the metric system in our measures: kilograms, centimeters, or kilometers. I have also noted that you still use the word "Indians" to describe the native people. We are not Indians. Indians are the people from India, which Columbus mistook...