On 12/26/2003 3:02 PM, ifignow wrote:
> " Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1g6kcyq.gh3fxk1i21zmsN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com...
> 
>>I'm not sure I understand the logic of that. If your intentions really
>>are honorable, the parents of young single women ought to welcome you.
>>As a gaigin, you are excused from most of the more subtle aspects of
>>such relationships.
> 
> 1. It's spelled gaijin.

Shows what you know.

> 2. If you think that way, it goes to show you don't understand this place.

See above.

>>>Can't wait to leave, really.
>>
>>How tedious for you to be stuck in this dump.
> 
> It is, but can't control where my family is from.

And yet you have such a deep understanding of the subtleties of Japanese 
culture. Did you read Shogun from cover to cover or something?

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