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bmwracer
Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 125547 Location: Juri-chan's speed dial Country: |
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:10 am Post subject: |
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niko2x wrote: | gaijin? to me it doesn't matter because being asian, i can sorta blend in until my non native JPNese comes out. also because i'm asian, i'm not REALLY considered gaijin/gaijin-san. |
So you're passing?
Heh, works for me.
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amrayu
Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 582 Location: san francisco, USA Country: |
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:24 am Post subject: |
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niko2x wrote: | gaijin? to me it doesn't matter because being asian, i can sorta blend in until my non native JPNese comes out. also because i'm asian, i'm not REALLY considered gaijin/gaijin-san. |
I've been called gaijin, even though I may appear to look japanese on the outside... of course that is thrown out the window until they hear me speaking english to my friend.
One time, while passing by a store, i asked my friend to ask the clerk for a poster hanging in the window. I also asked the clerk in english. and the clerk looked surprised, and asked my friends, "is she a gaijin?"
Another time, my friends were introducing me to someone, and mentioned that i was a gaijin. i heard her and said..."no, im not a gaijin..."
I don't really care, if i am called gaijin or not. It only happens when i speak English, and then they are surprised that i am NOT japanese. I enjoy looking at the expressions that they make.
Even funnier is when japanese people in the SF bay area talk to each other and call americans "gaijin." When in fact, they (the japanese people) are "gaijin" here.
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bmwracer
Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 125547 Location: Juri-chan's speed dial Country: |
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:36 am Post subject: |
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amrayu wrote: | It only happens when i speak English, and then they are surprised that i am NOT japanese. I enjoy looking at the expressions that they make. |
LOL. Same here. When I was in Honolulu, the maitre'd at a restaurant started speaking to me in Japanese, and he turned beet red after discovering I spoke English... I patted him on the back and said "don't worry about it.."
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bmwracer
Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 125547 Location: Juri-chan's speed dial Country: |
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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kitakaze wrote: | I've never heard the Japanese students at the college campuses I went to refer to any Americans as gaijin though.... |
That would be weird since they're in the States and they're the gaijin...
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amrayu
Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 582 Location: san francisco, USA Country: |
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:51 am Post subject: |
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bmwracer wrote: |
That would be weird since they're in the States and they're the gaijin... |
it happens... it's their group consciousness way of thinking...
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The Man
Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 1249 Location: USA Country: |
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 3:01 am Post subject: |
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bmwracer wrote: |
LOL. Same here. When I was in Honolulu, the maitre'd at a restaurant started speaking to me in Japanese, and he turned beet red after discovering I spoke English... I patted him on the back and said "don't worry about it.." |
What restaurant was this? When did this happen? Not to say I don't believe your story, 'racer, but, I've been to the Alan Wong's, the Sam Choy's, the Gyutaku's, et al. If anything, the help there will start talking in English to EVERYBODY (quite a number of East Asian tourists'll go there to eat, best believe) and go from there.
I also have a buncha' friends working in the non-stop hotel industry here in the islands. Even those of 'em who speak fluent Japanese'll start talking to tourists in English.
So, I dunno, from my experience, doesn't seem to be a big deal from my point-of-view, that li'l mistake of that maitre'd's. If most Japanese tourists are anything like my friends from Japan (who are many, not to brag, just stating a fact here), they're actually happy that you start talking to 'em in English while they're visiting here on the 'aina.
Anyway, I just wanted to know which restaurant?
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bmwracer
Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 125547 Location: Juri-chan's speed dial Country: |
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 3:39 am Post subject: |
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The Man wrote: | What restaurant was this? When did this happen? Not to say I don't believe your story, 'racer, but, I've been to the Alan Wong's, the Sam Choy's, the Gyutaku's, et al. If anything, the help there will start talking in English to EVERYBODY (quite a number of East Asian tourists'll go there to eat, best believe) and go from there.
I also have a buncha' friends working in the non-stop hotel industry here in the islands. Even those of 'em who speak fluent Japanese'll start talking to tourists in English.
So, I dunno, from my experience, doesn't seem to be a big deal from my point-of-view, that li'l mistake of that maitre'd's. If most Japanese tourists are anything like my friends from Japan (who are many, not to brag, just stating a fact here), they're actually happy that you start talking to 'em in English while they're visiting here on the 'aina.
Anyway, I just wanted to know which restaurant? |
Hmm, considering it was nearly nine years ago, I can't rightly recall... I do sorta remember that the restaurant had this big ol' indoor aquarium with an occasional diver inside, but that might've been somewhere else....
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kireikoori
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meiohsetsuna
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AZKaban
Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 1
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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With all do respect to personal-national-racial-and other feelings... and of corurse big IMHO...
Every nation,rase,ethnic group//well, in-general any group of people has some word it considers offensive. Now, let's multiply it on cultural habbits by other groups.. Example: word "Negr" in Russian referrs to people of African descend, and is not considered offensive - it used in same conotation like "black" in, say, US. On contrary, word "cherny" (meaning "black") is very bad (offensive nickname of guys from southern regions)
As a result, pretty much anybody could be offended by anything The only solution I see is to shut down stupid political correctness and take it easy. _________________
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zelie
Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | As a result, pretty much anybody could be offended by anything The only solution I see is to shut down stupid political correctness and take it easy.
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I agree - take brit for instance. People all over the world use it to refer to the British. They don't realize that it's a derogatory term used in Northern Ireland, as in "brits out". So yes, the best thing is to take it easy and not get upset (unless someone is using these terms in a racist manner on purpose)
Having said that, I would never use a word like 'jap' and suggest people avoid using it in forums just out of respect for people who are offended by it.
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bmwracer
Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 125547 Location: Juri-chan's speed dial Country: |
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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zelie wrote: | Having said that, I would never use a word like 'jap' and suggest people avoid using it in forums just out of respect for people who are offended by it. |
There you go. That's the bottom line.
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bmwracer
Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 125547 Location: Juri-chan's speed dial Country: |
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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supermidget wrote: | But it's totally insane when people freak out if you ask, for example "does anyone know some good jap songs?". This is obviously just an abreviation and has nothing to do with rascism. People should take it easy indeed... |
Yeah, but people should also be sensitive to others feelings and cultural differences...
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