"Sean Holland" <seanholland@pants.telus.net> wrote in message
news:BD6BDF07.113C3%seanholland@pants.telus.net...
> in article dQi1d.15974$ZC7.1493@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com, Musashi at
> Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp wrote on 9/13/04 8:15 AM:
>
> >
> > "Sean Holland" <seanholland@pants.telus.net> wrote in message
> > news:BD67945E.1125E%seanholland@pants.telus.net...
> >> in article tgk0d.9600$ZC7.4837@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com, Musashi at
> >> Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp wrote on 9/10/04 9:04 AM:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> "Vernon North" <verno@oyama.bc.ca> wrote in message
> >>> news:MPG.1bab6ea664143dec989984@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net...
> >>>> In article <3ij0d.9585$ZC7.7348@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com>,
> >>>> Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp says...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
> >>>>> news:414119D7.F57EC26C@yahoo.co.jp...
> >>>>>> Musashi wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "Clint" <pepmax@videotron.ca> wrote in message
> >>>>>>> news:z4%%c.10275$FX3.116071@weber.videotron.net...
> >>>>>>>> If you are doing any type of business in Japan, here's some
really
> >>>>> nice
> >>>>>>> gift
> >>>>>>>> ideas for your customers or associates in Japan;
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> http://www.FreeSpiritGallery.ca
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> You know, I don't think people in Japan are aware that the word
> >>> "eskimo"
> >>>>>>> (which is the same in Japanese) is derogatory.
> >>>>>>> At least I didn't.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> But it's good ice cream. I also miss orange Creamsicles in Japan.
The
> >>> old
> >>>>>> ones, not the new ones.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ah you are refering to North American Arctic Aboriginal Pies
> >>>>>
> >>>> No, those would be Inuit pies. ;-)
> >>>>
> >>>> IIRC, the objection to the word "Eskimo" is that it is a term created
> > by
> >>>> the whites, not what they call themselves.  It's a little like North
> >>>> American natives being called "indians".
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Or someone calling me an "asian".
> >>>
> >>
> >> Aren't you?
> >>
> >
> > Yes and No. That's the whole pointy of this discussion.
> > Geographically speaking yes.
> > But in terms of "how I perceive myself", certainly "asian" is not on the
top
> > of my list.
> >
> >
>
> Why not?
>
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Because as you must be aware, Japanese people living in Japan think only in
terms of
Nihonjin and Gaikokujin. When Japanese people reside overseas, they still
think of themselves
as Nihonjin, with most being aware that now they are the "gaikokujin" in
another country.
Because of the above most Japanese don't really have much reason to consider
themselves
"Oriental" much less "Asian". When one says "Asian" in Japan everyone thinks
of the
Asian Mainland, the Tairiku.
Its really only when a Nihonjin is overseas in a western country and has to
conform to that
countries definitions that one has to consider being an "Asian". Something
that meant something
else when living in Japan.
Now, this whole thread started because some website claimed that the term
"eskimo" was
offensive to the actual people because thats not what they call themselves.
I merely pointed out that Japanese in Japan don;t call themselves "Asian"
either.
Although now that I've said this, we don't call ourselves "Japanese" or our
country
"Japan" either.

Musashi