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The Outside World News #2 and #3: Banning “Gaijin”

Two new episodes of The Outside World News for you.

Episode 2 (with Michael Von Drausen): The racist term finally gets an official ban. It’s about time.

Episode 3 (with Fernando Narcisto De Afuera): Gaijin suck-up loves Japanese culture. Possibly too much.

26 comments - What do you think? Posted by fatblueman - October 24, 2008 at 11:26 am

Categories: News Satire Tags: gaijin

fatblueman

Not in The Outside World!!

JJ
The Overthinker

Would ruin the joke though. However if you want to make it a little more like the English ‘blessed’ then “kite kudasatta” might be better.

Chris

Absolutely hilarious! Thanks so much for posting this, as much as I like the news part of Japan Probe its light articles like this that really make this site shine.
http://klj one

so they ban gaijin and give us a longer name? how is this better? we still have a label. Why can’t we just be identified bu country like most other places on earth?

fatblueman

What?! Satire?! Damn. I’ve been telling everyone I’m a gaikokukarakitekuretajin. Even made t-shirts.

http://klj one

um… duh. still doesn’t help the problem of the outsider idea. Maybe if it was done in japanese and posted on 2ch people would see how stupid this whole gaijin/kaikokujin thing is.

LB

I think the aim is to show English-speakers how stupid the whole “gaijin is a racist epithet just like ‘nigger’” train of thought is.
me

I don’t think you read his post thoroughly. Try again.

http://aki-akiaki.blogspot.com/ Aki

Brits living in London don’t call foreigners foreigners?

http://klj one

nope. they call them japanese, americans, french, spanish, italian, polish, etc……
The Overthinker

Or Kikes, Pakis, Krauts, Frogs, Nips, Chinks, etc. There’s no shortage of rude words for foreigners in English, but they are generally more specific: there is no one word.

Not that “gaijin” is really terrible offensive anyway. It can often have very positive connotations.
http://www.victorymanual.com Alex

nope. they call them japanese, americans, french, spanish, italian, polish, etc……

So when referring to all people from different countries as a group, they’d have to name them each individually? How tiring!

Can you imagine the news report?

“UK immigration records show large numbers of Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Spanish, Colombian, Jamaican, Korean, Russian, Norwegian, Italian, French, Kazakhstanian, Georgian, Greek, Uzbekistanian … [snip] have visited London this year.”
http://www.japanprobe.com James

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4318912.stm

But to be honest, it does sound a bit odd for someone to say “I want live in London make friends with foreigners.” (Unless that person meant they wanted to make friends with non-British residents and visitors)

http://torerling.blogspot.com Tor Erling

I never got how gaijin is looked at as an offensive word..
the videos absolutely cracked me up, the gaikokujin one is so good so like some thing the japanese would do, in my experience
http://h8gwb.deviantart.com h8GWB

The headline kinda mislead me at first. When I first read it, I thought “Finally, the Japanese grew the balls to do something about it, even though it was pretty clear what their attitude about it was anyway.”
http://whatjapanthinks.com Ken Y-N

“Tepiddo Naruhodo” – whoever could they mean!

That was much, much better than I imagined it would be, I must say.
Momonga

I really like this kind of humor! Thanks for posting it! Made my day! By the way-my birthday…
Jeef

wait was there really a ban or is that a part a joke too?

I think that’s the most unnecessary thing in the world. America doesn’t ban the use of “nigger”, people just kinda know not the use it because it’s a bad word. I think that banning words is one step closer to the “surveillance society” that was posted when they installed cameras on those vending machines. Things like this really should be more about social awareness rather than government policy. arudou is officially crazy and retarded.

dobokun

Hahaa sounds sooo funny 外国から来てくれ人!! Sounds like those people still want to be listen to 来てくれ人「聞く」 ^n^