Blog-post by Mark Makino – on the Japanese term: “Gaikoku-Jin” which translates: “Outsider-foreigner”
Mark Makino‘s post on the embedded aspects of race, nation, colonialism, and Japanese identity in the term: Gaikoku-Jin (Outsider-Foreigner):
Foreign? Western? White? Non-Japanese? Occidental proboscis monsters?
Posted in: Blog, Japan, Japanese, Neo-colonization, Orientalism, Racism, Social Justice, white supremacy
Outsider is not a bad translation but I hardly ever see it being used.
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