Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!u7g2000vbq.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Hafu Project Night! Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:07:54 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 14 Message-ID: <75ccc77f-f732-47ef-b589-0e841c372940@u7g2000vbq.googlegroups.com> References: <274043a8-bffa-425d-a9df-c11cfca78e4c@n37g2000prc.googlegroups.com> <0beccf29-eda8-4ebc-b790-e420f8ccee91@n37g2000prc.googlegroups.com> <4c05ce35$0$5487$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.138.0.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1275480474 26175 127.0.0.1 (2 Jun 2010 12:07:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 12:07:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u7g2000vbq.googlegroups.com; posting-host=170.138.0.11; posting-account=d_4qMQkAAAAoC3cPt9leEr6UZXdXfvYA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169241 On Jun 1, 10:20=A0pm, CL wrote: > It bothers me A LOT, Is it because of context? I think that since I've never really had the word used negatively towards my son it doesn't resonate that way. The only time it comes up here is when we say our son is half Japanese, but even that doesn't come up (because most people can figure that out when they see the dopey white guy and the pretty Japanese lady standing with him). It helps, too, that the Japanese fascination in the US makes it a fairly positive thing to be in any way associated with Japan. John W.