it is all semantics..but it is the same as how some south american ayahuasceros do not like being called shamans because they are curranderos..calling a healing currandero a shaman though is closer to the truth than calling some "evil" or dark ayahuascero a witch..I dunno I just heard this so often in college and it really got annoying.

I just see it as a continuation of backwards christian ideals, something that needs to die. This kind of misuse of terminology continues a line of cultural ignorance..and it only serves to greater alienate another group of people and creat more confusion around who they really are.

What I am saying is that it is a stereotype that I would expect a cultural anthropologist to not perpetuate.