Quote Originally Posted by Kilt_Em_All View Post
gaikokujin literally translates to "foreign country person." Personally, I don't go in for the whole PC thing myself, so I sometimes refer to myself as hakujin or "white person", which is every bit as "offensive", if not more so than gaijin.

-Elliott
White person = 'white ghost' to my Chinese neighbours, another unhappy reference to death etc. I say we all just bash each other the odd time and all stay friends, as friends do. But I'm afraid I'm not fashionable in that regard.