Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: mtfester@netscape.net Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan Subject: Re: Question about japanese college students Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 01:48:30 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Subtlties R'nt Us Lines: 33 Sender: Mike Fester Message-ID: References: <52210046.0307052211.6f48971e@posting.google.com> <365fcc52.0307150322.f7fe83e@posting.google.com> <8O4Ra.61881$sY2.29755@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net> Reply-To: mtfester@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.stanford.edu X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1058838510 21092 171.64.19.149 (22 Jul 2003 01:48:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-981225 ("Volcane") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i586)) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:3175 In fj.life.in-japan John Yamamoto-Wilson wrote: > I wrote: >> > In other words, he describes himself as a native American, growing up on > a >> > reservation, > And Mike Fester clarified: >> Not quite full-blooded: I spent a " reasonable part of my childhood" on >> reservations, specifically the Lac du Flambeau Reservation in Northern >> Wisconsin. My grandfather was Iroquois. > OK. But you're clearly not coming from where Kaz has placed you. Your This is a surprise because... > Iroquois grandfather upsets his equations as much as my Irish grandfather Hey, I knew an Irish-Japanese family; named 0'Gawa. (Sorry, couldn't resist.) > did when he and I got into a similar barney a month or two ago...Well, *his* > side of it was similar; I refrained from invective, as befits a man of my > dignity and station in life ;-) Me, I have entirely too much time on my hands :-) > And, since we're talking, the state of Israel dates from.... From the time the people with the guns got the land and called it such :-) Mike