<declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:

> NC86 wrote:
> > Someone in my Japanese class last year was born in Japan, then moved to
> > Korea when she was 8. Obviously her Japanese had suffered through
> > non-use because she was in our lower-intermediate class. Her only native
> > language was Korean.
> >
> > In nihon, would that person be considered a gaigin; with all the
> > discrimination problems that entails?
> 
> If the parents were Japanese then she would not be considered a gaigin,
> just (if younger than 20) a kikokushijo or if an adult, a non Japanese
> speaking Japanese.

She might experience a different kind of discrimination, from people
assuming she must be retarded if she's so clearly Japanese but can't
speak the language.

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