Apud necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> (fj.life.in-japan) hoc legimus:

>..... Usually when someone stares, they know that
>what they're doing is rude, so when the person they are staring at looks
>back at them, they quickly avert their eyes. Of course these are just
>anecdotes, but on several occasions in Nagoya I have glanced back at someone
>staring me down, on the train for example, and they don't even flinch. They
>just continue staring at me (with perhaps the added excitement that one
>feels at the zoo when the gorilla looks back at you...) Isn't that an
>indication that the person not only has bad manners, but they don't even
>realize that they have bad manners? ......

No, it's an indication that he thinks he's looking at some form of 
sub-human species, just like staring at a gorilla in a zoo.  After all,
who gets embarrassed when a gorilla looks back at them?

Now if you had a nose job, some tucks put in the corners of your
eyes, and grew your hair back .....

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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