Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Everybody's favorite gaijin Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 05:33:19 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 23 Message-ID: <26259149.629.1336393999952.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynff16> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.129.85.164 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1336394000 1401 127.0.0.1 (7 May 2012 12:33:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 12:33:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mtfester@netscape.net In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.129.85.164; posting-account=d_4qMQkAAAAoC3cPt9leEr6UZXdXfvYA User-Agent: G2/1.0 Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:170425 On Saturday, May 5, 2012 9:58:26 PM UTC-5, mtfe...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote= : > http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20120501ad.html >=20 > Couple things; >=20 > Oh, and someone should point out that one of the reasons Japanese ask "ga= ijin" > if they like natto is because many Japanese do not. > =20 Sometimes I think that Debito doesn't understand the art of conversation. T= here are things you ask people about when you want to be friendly, when you= want to start up a conversation with them. I'm not sure it's stereotypes s= o much as an assumption that a lot of Japanese make about people new to the= ir country; we all do it in our home countries, so why persecute every rand= om Japanese who does so as well? And I know MANY people in the US who canno= t use chopsticks; I couldn't when I went to Japan the first time. And I ha= te natto. It is the most vile food in the world. The only purpose natto ser= ves is as (one) indicator that I won't be having sex that night. John W.