"necoandjeff" wrote ...
> "Paul Blay" wrote ...
>> "necoandjeff" wrote ...
>> > "Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote ...
>> >>
>> >> Because as you must be aware, Japanese people living in Japan think
>> >> only in terms of Nihonjin and Gaikokujin. When Japanese people 
>> >> reside overseas, they still think of themselves as Nihonjin, with 
>> >> most being aware that now they are the "gaikokujin" in another country.
>> >
>> > Then why do so many Japanese continue to refer to non-Japanese as
>> > gaijin, even when overseas?
>>
>> Because gaijin <> gaikokujin ?
> 
> Well, I wasn't going to nitpick the fact that Japanese actually divide the
> world into Nihonjin and Gaijin...

It could be empirical evidence for 'gaijin' being non-Japanese while 
'gaikokujin' is for people-of-another-country.  Don't ask me though -
I'm a gaikokujin er, a gaijin er, ... English.