I agree with you - discomfort was the point. In a era where people deny or diminish white prvilige, people vocally hankering after antebellum plantation life, and on and on, maybe this is some shit that NEEDS to be said, and said more often. It was a fact of life. Also, most Europeans' (+ the Irish who don't…

Yep. It really boils down to Constantly Offended People get offended over something, because they can never stop being self-important and paternalistic.

I've also noticed on online dating sites that "age is jut a number" according to many older men, but they only mean their age because they would never get with a woman over 30 ewwwww.

BINGO BANGO BONGO. That's what bothers me as well. And as another commenter mentioned, I prefer a partner who understands cultural touchstones that are important to me. There is such a huge difference between myself and a 50+ year old. Having to teach my boyfriend to internet (sorry, stereotype, but often true) isn't…

Please stop. You don't get it.

except, darling, I lived there as a native american for a year. Travelled all over. Been back many times.

sorry I have to burst your bubble. I'm NA. Lived in Germany for a year. Travelled all over. Visit often.

Just because German society has an issue with it does not mean Heidi needs to sign off on this. She has been in the US a long time and has a whole lotta business over here. There are ways the show could have done the Western shoot without the red-face. She and her brand are multi-national, which means balancing…

Germans have a very (very very) weird relationship with the American West and Native Americans. They are FASCINATED by it, and always have been but in the way that Americans in the 1950s were fascinated it and had cowboy and indian movies.