Marc Adler wrote:
> Musashi wrote:
> 
> 
>>You know, I don't think people in Japan are aware that the word "eskimo"
>>(which is the same in Japanese) is derogatory.
>>At least I didn't.
> 
> 
> What?! How can it be derogatory? That's where we get our word for
> 'skiing,' for chrissake.

Eskimo means something like "raw meat eater". I'll make sure I explain 
that to the next rice-muncher I hear using the term.

James
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