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- From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
- Subject: Who started all this gaijin myth?! (was Re: Genitals in Japan)
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- References: <Bxs1Iw.n0A@world.std.com> <1992Nov19.050206.2958@deeptht.armory.com> <1992Nov20.135823.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:26:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.135823.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz> quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- >rstevew@deeptht.armory.com (Richard Steven Walz) writes:
- >> rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner) writes:
-
- >>>Japanese, as any Japanese-surnamed individual ought to know, are
- >>>particularly thin-skinned about criticism, especially when it comes
- >>>from gaijin (read: racial inferiors, i.e., the rest of the world).
-
- >> Pretty inferior I guess we are, huh? They bomb Pearl, we're gaijin. We
- >> blow a couple cities to hell and flame Tokyo and Yokohama and a half
- >> dozen others and we're still gaijin.
-
- > I believe 'gaijin' has a meaning more similar to "foreigners" or
- >"Western barbarians" and carries the overtones of racial inferiority in that
- >it reflects any racist attitudes that the speaker holds.
- > To be called a "gaijin" by a friend would not be an insult.
-
- Here we go again.
-
- I really cannot help feeling a smell of conspiracy. Someone must be
- teaching innocent "gaijin-san-tachi" that "gaijin" is an offensive
- word. Someone must be producing some scenario that friendly "gaijin" and
- hospitable Japanese end up hating each other.
-
- Assuming that these "gaijin" netters represent an average population of
- "gaijin," I wonder how many "gaijin" already believe that "gaijin"
- is an insult.
-
- Assuming that these "gaijin" netters have never learned Japanese,
- I wonder where they got that "gaijin" story. Is it time to take a poll?
-
- "Where did you learn that "gaijin" is a derogatory word?"
-
- Thank god! Webster's dictionary still doesn't have "gaijin."
-
- [An interesting conversation deleted.]
-
- > (Please forgive me for crossposting the last para. to soc.japan)
-
- No problem. You should have come to s.c.japan a couple of days
- earlier to look at the "gaijin" flame war... 8-).
-
- --Michiaki
-