From: jim_breen@hotmail.com Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan,sci.lang.japan Subject: Re: gifts for Japanese Date: 11 Sep 2004 07:09:12 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2qfmknFuvb4eU2@uni-berlin.de> References: <1v00d.14214$FV3.14160@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com> <%610d.14217$FV3.7873@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com> <2qcjbiFst5tkU1@uni-berlin.de> <2qcmltFtp9kgU3@uni-berlin.de> <2qempnFtp9kgU8@uni-berlin.de> <3845k0tuo9uj6af8lo055rbp492da1668o@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de d0R2ti9XUvuDMfMCCINRPAUvU4er3qSp348G+KK4FE5LKkqWAn X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.18-27.7.x (i686)) Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!oleane.net!oleane!feed.ac-versailles.fr!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:18129 Apud Dale Walker (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus: >In the UK, 'Asian' is reserved for south asian peoples like those from >India and the other more easterly asians are all more often than not >called 'oriental' unless they're often mistakenly just called >'Chinese' which from my experience significantly pisses off more non >chinese asians than anythnig else I can think of. I was chatting (in Tokyo) with a visiting Pommgolian academic about their odd use of the term "Asian", when to us Asia means China, Japan, etc. "Well, why don't you call it `The Far East' like we do?" he asked. I did a ritual ROTFL, and explained that it's a tad difficult to call a place that is actually North-West of you "the Far East". He seemed surprised we didn't use Europe as a reference point for our placing things. -- Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Computer Science & Software Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学