Pretty simple question I guess.
If you don't know what the word Gaijin means, I guess you would walk right past the stall.
Nevertheless, it is a Japanese word that means outsider or foreigner.
It was a word popularised, by the movie Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift.
It has a cool stigma attached to it in Japan, where foreigners often invoke much intrigue.
As well as a bad stigma, aka Baka na Gaijin, stupid foreigner.
All in all, I thought it was pretty cool and I thought a lot of Japanophiles would buy it on a tshirt, so I am in the process of getting them made. Naturally, I don't have any pictures to show, it would have the word once in roman characters and once again in one of the Japanese writing systems, as well as perhaps a character, kawaii or otherwise, and maybe a symbol of Gaijinness, like a spoon.
I cam up with the idea, for when I go to Japan, so that I would not be hit by hardcore Japanese and be let off for my poor, unaccustomed etiquette.
What do you think?
If you don't know what the word Gaijin means, I guess you would walk right past the stall.
Nevertheless, it is a Japanese word that means outsider or foreigner.
It was a word popularised, by the movie Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift.
It has a cool stigma attached to it in Japan, where foreigners often invoke much intrigue.
As well as a bad stigma, aka Baka na Gaijin, stupid foreigner.
All in all, I thought it was pretty cool and I thought a lot of Japanophiles would buy it on a tshirt, so I am in the process of getting them made. Naturally, I don't have any pictures to show, it would have the word once in roman characters and once again in one of the Japanese writing systems, as well as perhaps a character, kawaii or otherwise, and maybe a symbol of Gaijinness, like a spoon.
I cam up with the idea, for when I go to Japan, so that I would not be hit by hardcore Japanese and be let off for my poor, unaccustomed etiquette.
What do you think?
