Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!CALA-MUZIK!news.moat.net!news.glorb.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: shibuya@excite.com (wasabi) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Gaijin = American...not Date: 26 Feb 2004 07:15:19 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.76.238.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1077808520 6447 127.0.0.1 (26 Feb 2004 15:15:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:12322 "Musashi" wrote in message news:... > 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