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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-02-05 06:43 pm

[ SECRET POST #2591 ]


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ill_omened: (Default)

[personal profile] ill_omened 2014-02-06 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't imagine you would to be honest, especially given how insular large portions of the community can be to outsiders, but surely you find it linguistically telling that so many other cultural groups don't have a specific word for 'not us'.
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[personal profile] ketita 2014-02-06 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Don't most other cultures have one? 'alien' in English, gaijin, waikukin, I forget the one for Chinese...
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[personal profile] ill_omened 2014-02-06 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Lao wei.

Gaijin is on point, but alien shows exactly what I mean. It's an incredibly broad term that at a strech means 'not from my nation', but nation only speaks to legal constructs. Who can be from my nation is almost anyone. It doesn't have anything like the same connotations.

(Anonymous) 2014-02-06 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree that Alien and Goy aren't really compatible- but it is more like gaijin, lao wei, guizi, farang, bule or ausländer. They can be constructed as insults- but then again, Jews are reffered to as a "goy" themselves in the bible several times. It's all about context.