Re: virus: Tabacco mind virus: antivirii

Neco and Jeff (NecoandJeff@mail.org)
Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:16:57 +0900


Eva-Lise Carlstrom wrote:
>
> There was a poster on a bulletin board on the University of Oregon campus
> bearing a picture of a young Asian woman, arms crossed, facing the viewer,

There is nothing wrong with detail to paint a vivid picture in the mind
of the listener but I wonder...had she been caucasion would you have
pointed out her race? Not criticism really, just thinking out loud. I
live in Tokyo and recently in a store here I overheard two kids talking
about me and referring to me as, 'the gaijin (foreigner or more
literally outsider) next to us' rather than 'the person next to us.' I
asked my fiance (Japanese) if she thought that there was anyone in all
of Japan who would have referred to me as a person rather than a
'gaijin' in a similar situation and she thought not. Is this good or
bad? Are there any memes quietly replicating here? I wonder.

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