"Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message news:<AIK_b.27449$CP4.26188@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com>...
> Hello again all of you nihontaizai no gaikoku no okata, et al.
> I think its really erroneous, and in some cases perhaps insulting, depending
> on the person, when Japanese people automatically assume that any western
> looking gaikokujin is an American.

Furukusai!  You are behind the times.

> Most Japanese especially older ones still relate any caucasian to an
> American since it was the post war occupation period when they first saw so
> many foreigners walking around in Japan. How do you all
> feel about this?

That was then, now is now.  Most modern Japanese don't think that way.

> I am assuming it is similar to how I feel when in the rural US people assume
> I am
> "Chinese".

What's wrong with being Chinese?  Be proud of what you are.
 
> Musashi

Yojimbo, aka wasabi