Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newshosting.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!38.144.126.100.MISMATCH!feed5.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!news3.optonline.net!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!clgrps12.POSTED!3058cb5f!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.6 Subject: Re: gifts for Japanese From: Sean Holland Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan,sci.lang.japan Message-ID: References: <1v00d.14214$FV3.14160@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com> <%610d.14217$FV3.7873@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com> <2qcjbiFst5tkU1@uni-berlin.de> <2qcmltFtp9kgU3@uni-berlin.de> <2qempnFtp9kgU8@uni-berlin.de> <3845k0tuo9uj6af8lo055rbp492da1668o@4ax.com> <_Wn1d.1487$Qv5.235@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com> <2qmuh1Fvt0tkU26@uni-berlin.de> <%Ms1d.19305$vE2.15996@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 06:39:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.183.190.57 X-Trace: clgrps12 1095143945 66.183.190.57 (Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:39:05 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:39:05 MDT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:18351 in article %Ms1d.19305$vE2.15996@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com, necoandjeff at spam@schrepfer.com wrote on 9/13/04 7:34 PM: > > But yet you have no trouble using the word Oriental, even though at one time > it referred to a geographic region that encompassed something quite > different from just China, Korea and Japan? > > Anyway, I agree. But it isn't just geographic terms that create problems. > Any attempt at classifying people by ethnicity is bound to run into trouble > sooner or later, whether it is by geography, nationality, religion or > whatever. And it is getting increasingly difficult. My best friend is half > Danish and half Burmese and a U.S. citizen who speaks native English, native > Dutch and damn good Japanese, and his wife is Japanese American who speaks > native English and native Japanese. I don't know how you would even begin to > classify my friend, let alone their son. > > Jeff > He's a harbinger of the future. Perhaps people like him will be called "Earthlings." --- pantsseanholland@telus.pants.net Remove pants to email me.