Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: jwb@csse.monash.edu.au Subject: Re: Japanese study... Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,sci.lang.japan References: <4338dd87$0$6771$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1128066450.616389.253460@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1128079872.658404.103620@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1128142967.229703.100120@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1128300338.254658.256040@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.18-27.7.x (i686)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 24 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:15:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.217.21.83 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1128302128 138.217.21.83 (Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:15:28 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:15:28 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:29826 Apud necoandjeff (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 ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学