Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<40BDB4BF.6060901@hotmail.com>...
> Michael Cash wrote:
> 
> > It's very similar to the thing of Americans getting pissed off when
> > Japanese just *assume* they're American. 
> 
> I didn't know sepponians got pissed off when Japanese just assumed the 
> sepponians are sepponians. I thought it was the non-sepponians who got 
> pissed off, especially since its not just the Japanese who assume they 
> are sepponian, but also the sepponians who assume that all the gaigin 
> they meet (even here on not-quite-usenet) are sepponians.
> 
I've always thought that was a bit of an unfair assumption. Not
untrue, but not fair either since I think it's somewhat natural to
assume that someone who looks like a Sepponian is a Sepponian (and
etc.).

I had a British roommate once and he assumed people were from Sepponia
too. I tend to lean towards assuming everyone's from Canada. Less
chance of pissing anybody off, and if the person IS from Canada it
makes them so happy.

John W.