Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Savages

So I was in Turkey last week visiting Z&M. There I learned that the Turkish word for foreigner (yabancı) sounds a lot like the Japanese word for savage (yabanjin 野蛮人). Thanks to that knowledge I found myself reacting hypersensitively whenever anyone mentioned that word.


Well, tourists can be savages . . .

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