Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:

>I'm yet to progress to the um-ing and aw-ing in Japanese phase, so I
>don't know if it naturally follows, but I know a couple of gaigin who
>regularly point to the nose, rather than to the chest, to indicate
>"self". To me it always looks like a forced gesture, but I've never
>actually asked the people who do it if it's natural or not, just in
>case they get offended or something. I'm no psychologist or whatever,
>but I would think that it must be forced. What do you lot think?

No offense taken, since I've become a thick-skinned bastard, but I never even
realized I was pointing to my nose to indicate "self" until I went to the US
last year and my mother picked on me for days about it.

I would be suspect if the gaigins in question were JETs or something who've been
here eighteen or nineteen minutes, but with those of us who are under life
sentences (and rarely come into regular contact with other gaigins), I'd say
it's a natural result of watching a hundred thousand other people do it 98,263
times a day.


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