Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!passion.nalgo.co.jp!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!cyclone.tampabay.rr.com!news-post.tampabay.rr.com!cyclone2.kc.rr.com!news2.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Marc Adler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 X-Accept-Language: ja, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan,sci.lang.japan Subject: Re: gifts for Japanese 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 14 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:45:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.8.214.134 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1094809525 66.8.214.134 (Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:45:25 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:45:25 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:18059 necoandjeff wrote: > Here in San Francisco (or LA for that matter) if you were to > refer to Asians as "Orientals" you would sound like some uneducated hick > from the Midwest. He lives in Florida, not the Midwest. -- Maar God weet, dat, ten dage | als gij daarvan eet, zo zullen | Marc Adler |------ uw ogen geopend worden, en gij | / zult als God wezen, kennende het | ------| marc.adler@gmail.com goed en het kwaad. - Genesis 3:5 |