Re: Words

Raymond Brown wrote:

> When I was young "foreigner" was used much more democratically - it simply
> meant 'someone not born & bred in our village' irrespective or ethicity,
> skin color, religion, language, economic status etc etc ;)
Such, indeed, is the term "gaijin": there are Japanese and there are gaijin,
period.  Which is not to say that there is no discrimination *within*
Japanese society: there is one group, though outwardly indistinguishable
(its members can "pass" if they are careful) who are treated as second-class
(or 47th-class) socially.

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