"Sean Holland" <seanholland@pants.telus.net> wrote in message
news:BD67945E.1125E%seanholland@pants.telus.net...
> in article tgk0d.9600$ZC7.4837@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com, Musashi at
> Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp wrote on 9/10/04 9:04 AM:
>
> >
> > "Vernon North" <verno@oyama.bc.ca> wrote in message
> > news:MPG.1bab6ea664143dec989984@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net...
> >> In article <3ij0d.9585$ZC7.7348@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com>,
> >> Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp says...
> >>>
> >>> "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
> >>> news:414119D7.F57EC26C@yahoo.co.jp...
> >>>> Musashi wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> "Clint" <pepmax@videotron.ca> wrote in message
> >>>>> news:z4%%c.10275$FX3.116071@weber.videotron.net...
> >>>>>> If you are doing any type of business in Japan, here's some really
> >>> nice
> >>>>> gift
> >>>>>> ideas for your customers or associates in Japan;
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> http://www.FreeSpiritGallery.ca
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You know, I don't think people in Japan are aware that the word
> > "eskimo"
> >>>>> (which is the same in Japanese) is derogatory.
> >>>>> At least I didn't.
> >>>>
> >>>> But it's good ice cream. I also miss orange Creamsicles in Japan. The
> > old
> >>>> ones, not the new ones.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Ah you are refering to North American Arctic Aboriginal Pies
> >>>
> >> No, those would be Inuit pies. ;-)
> >>
> >> IIRC, the objection to the word "Eskimo" is that it is a term created
by
> >> the whites, not what they call themselves.  It's a little like North
> >> American natives being called "indians".
> >>
> >
> > Or someone calling me an "asian".
> >
>
> Aren't you?
>

Yes and No. That's the whole pointy of this discussion.
Geographically speaking yes.
But in terms of "how I perceive myself", certainly "asian" is not on the top
of my list.