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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