Re: gifts for Japanese
Apud necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
><jim_breen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> I think I've told the story I heard from a lecturer in Australian
>> Studies at 同志社大学 who organizes trips for her students. A couple
>> of students complained mightily that they'd been told they'd be
>> home-staying with Australian families and then they found they were
>> actually staying with *Chinese*. The fact that the families were
>> 2nd or 3rd gen. Australian didn't cut any ice; they weren't white,
>> so according to the students they weren't really Australian.
>Did they talk with a funny accent?
Everyone in Sydney talks funny.
>That's the only thing I require to
>consider someone Australian?
So to you most people on the planet are Australians?
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Computer Science & Software Engineering,
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