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Article #2716Re: * Criticizing one's English skills...
From: Motoyen
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 00:00
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Masataka san, I agree with you that to criticize someone else's grammar is bad form indeed, however I find that an interesting comment coming from a nihonjin (japanese). If you have spent any time in Japan you know very well how japanese people react to gaijin (foreigners) approaching them with broken japanese. Most gaijin will encounter the famous Japanese inscrutable smile and a pretense that they do not understand. Most Japanese will not admit it but they are a very racist society compared to the western world. Racist may be too harsh a word, protective may be more correct. It is just not as open in Japan as it is here. Then again there are a lot of hena gaijins in Japan isn't there?? ;-) motoyen Masataka Noda wrote: > <snip some comments and the world longest sig file>
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