Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s53.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: russj41@concentric.net (MacHamish) Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.scottish,soc.culture.china,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Why do chinks hate japs and not brits? Reply-To: rjimeson1@comcast.net Message-ID: <2jo1r0tvv95oghdb2cv07b411b1sqdal20@4ax.com> References: <30ppt3F34speoU1@uni-berlin.de> <30sahgF31o15rU1@uni-berlin.de> <18ejq0hij0mj06inm3agl4rlcsvtu6eikp@4ax.com> <41af3587.1229307@news> <41af6fc3.952780@news> <41afadb3.2277084@news> <31a4gmF38479mU1@individual.net> <41b0df2a.25320458@news> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 X-No-Archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 32 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.162.199.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s53 1102111402 67.162.199.193 (Fri, 03 Dec 2004 22:03:22 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 22:03:22 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 22:03:23 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:23062 On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 21:49:51 GMT, micheil@shaw.ca (Michilín) wrote: >On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:22:11 +0900, "John Yamamoto-Wilson" > wrote: > >>Michi something (my computer's configuration won't read the last part of the >>name) wrote: >> >>> [MacHamish's] surname's Irish >> >>What an odd thing to say. MacHamish is about as Scottish as it gets (check >>any information on the Gunn clan, e.g., >>http://www.yourscottishname.com/gunn_clan.htm, or >>http://www.geocities.com/sconemac/septgunn.html). Have you never heard of >>MacHamish Scotch whiskey (http://www.geocities.com/jordan_m30/malts.html)? >> >>From what I can gather, the name exists in Ireland mainly in the north. >>Without (admittedly) knowing much about it, I'd assume it was brought there >>by Scottish Protestants. >> >>-- >>John >>http://rarebooksinjapan.com >> > >It is a common and perennial insult in Scotland to say that someone's >name is Irish and that therefore they must be Irish; the Irish not >having formerly been held in great esteem by Scots. Bigot. MacHamish Mór