"Haluk Skywalker" <halukakaNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote in message
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> > "Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message
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> >
> >> No no we are talking about only in Japan.
> >> That's why this is all about 外国人 and 英語。
> >
> > Ah, but we established in a different thread that 外人 and probably even
> > 外
> > 国人 means "not Japanese" regardless of where you happen to be, didn't
we?
>
> Wait a minute. Now I'm in Turkey and I believe Japanese are gaijin here.
Or
> am I wrong? Am I still gaijin? I moved all the way back here to be a
*normal
> person* again and you're telling me I'm still gaijin?

Sorry, but you're a lifetime member of the club regardless of where you
happen to be, and you can't quit. Most Japanese, excluding perhaps those who
have lived abroad for a long period of time, use the word gaijin to refer to
anyone who isn't Japanese (and most likely non-Asian, but don't ask me to
define the word Asian), and they do it even when they are actually the
foreigner and they're referring to the locals.

Jeff