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Kaz wrote:
> "John Yamamoto-Wilson" <j-yamamo@sophia.ac.jp> wrote in message news:bbb1jc$7c0ub$1@ID-169501.news.dfncis.de...
> 
>>Kaz wrote:
>>>One of the most famous Japanese novelist is ethnically British but he
>>>had Japanese nationatily. Koizumi Yaso, His English name is Lafcadio
>>>Hearn.

Which part of Hearn was "ethnically British"? The Greek mother or the 
Irish father? Hearn was born in Greece, educated primarily in France, 
Ireland and Sepponia, and had in fact spent the majority of his life in 
Sepponia prior to his arrival in Japan.

> I've never been to Britain, but the scenes of kippers being hung in
> the front of fishermen's houses in a fishing village in some coast in
> Britain I saw on TV just reminded me the scene of northern Hyogo
> prefecture called Tajima, which is the neighbor region of Tottori.

You do realize that eating seafood for breakfast is *not* unusual in 
many countries don't you? Almost all of the fishing villages in the 
world have more in common with each other than most cities. Do you also 
think that gaigin don't eat seaweed?

> But funny thing I heard is that completely westernized British people
> also eat those kippers in their breakfast, is that true?  I guesss
> that was one thing that Hearn liked.

What the hell are "completely westernized British people"?




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