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- Subject: Re: Who started all this gaijin myth?! (was Re: Genitals in Japan)
- From: bigbro@netlink.cts.com (Kenneth Sullivan)
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 12:42:13 PST
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- >
- >
- > Again we see the slippery Japanese language in action. In fact, there
- > aren't many words in Japanese that can be pinned down as deliberately
- > insulting the way American swear words are. My point was not to flame the
- > word "gaijin" itself, but the attitude behind it. I am a "hakujin", which
- > is another semi-derogatory word. My Japanese friends use the word
- > "gaikokujin" (person from another country) to spare my feelings, where a
- > simple "gaijin" might seem to them impolite. It's as if I were to call
- > someone a foreigner in English. The delivery would be everything. The word
- > can be insulting or impartial. But my real point is that the Japanese do
- > regard everyone outside their group (however that group may be defined at
- > the moment) as in some sense "gaijin" or "outside people."
- > --
- > =============================================================================
- > "The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have
- > loved it." -- George Santayana Reply to: rhb@world.std.com
- > =============================================================================
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- Well what group out there does not regard oustiders as ousiders? Most
- people in a group have come love of come group they are in, and feel
- threatened by others outside this group.
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