in article tgk0d.9600$ZC7.4837@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com, Musashi at
Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp wrote on 9/10/04 9:04 AM:

> 
> "Vernon North" <verno@oyama.bc.ca> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1bab6ea664143dec989984@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net...
>> In article <3ij0d.9585$ZC7.7348@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com>,
>> Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp says...
>>> 
>>> "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
>>> news:414119D7.F57EC26C@yahoo.co.jp...
>>>> Musashi wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> "Clint" <pepmax@videotron.ca> wrote in message
>>>>> news:z4%%c.10275$FX3.116071@weber.videotron.net...
>>>>>> If you are doing any type of business in Japan, here's some really
>>> nice
>>>>> gift
>>>>>> ideas for your customers or associates in Japan;
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://www.FreeSpiritGallery.ca
>>>>> 
>>>>> You know, I don't think people in Japan are aware that the word
> "eskimo"
>>>>> (which is the same in Japanese) is derogatory.
>>>>> At least I didn't.
>>>> 
>>>> But it's good ice cream. I also miss orange Creamsicles in Japan. The
> old
>>>> ones, not the new ones.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ah you are refering to North American Arctic Aboriginal Pies
>>> 
>> No, those would be Inuit pies. ;-)
>> 
>> IIRC, the objection to the word "Eskimo" is that it is a term created by
>> the whites, not what they call themselves.  It's a little like North
>> American natives being called "indians".
>> 
> 
> Or someone calling me an "asian".
> 

Aren't you?

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