"necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote in message
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> Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> > What if "at home" is "in Japan?"
>
> Don't you too have that little card hanging out of your passport as a
> constant reminder that you WILL leave Japan someday?

No, I've got this little card hanging in my passport saying the Japanese
government would LIKE me to leave Japan someday ... preferably soon, I would
gather.

> Japan for me too. I will say this in my defense: The gaigin who make the
> kinds of observations I'm talking about are generally not the kind who
> consider Japan "home," although there are exceptions to that
generalization
> as well.

Well, I would say that gaijin in general fit your generalization.

But I would imagine that most of the people here don't worry about couching
their posts so that they are not mis-interpreted by that type of gaijin, or
by the other type of gaijin that feels compelled to chastise that type of
gaijin.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom
ryang@gol.com