"Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> > It certainly isn't because of my perfect Japanese -- my foreign accent
is
> > usually noticeable after a sentence or two. So it must be looks, coupled
> > with a mechanism people here seem to invoke to dispel the cognitive
> > dissonance created by a Japanese-talking white boy.
>
> It seems perfecctly reasonable to me to assume that all white boys in
> Okinawa are either US military or haafu. Are you sure you aren't haafu?
> If not, why not? You are in denial.

Well, I am certainly half something, and half something else, but unless my
mom had a wild affair with a Japanese dude while living in the wilds of
Alaska, it doesn't seem very likely that one of those halves is Japanese.

> (Or back in the military?)

Heaven forbid, although that is usually the other supposition made about me.
Especially by military people. Actually I think they usually assume I'm one
of those base-working longhairs by my bedraggled appearance, or maybe with a
few more gray hairs retiree will be a plausible scenario.

> http://www.trainerbryan.com/files/H_DSCF0028.jpg
> And is there any gaigin in Aichi who hasn't been asked if they were
> Brazilian? Especially by Brazilians? Usually in Brazilianese?

Unless by Peruvians in Peruvianese.

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Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom