Sunday, February 8, 2009

モンガー

mongaa
an abbreviated of モンスター外人 (monsutaa gaizin), meaning, monster foreigner, or foreigner run amok


a friend alerted me to this neologism, which appeared in a Tokyo weekly magazine. the article it headlined purported to detail all the recent attacks on Japanese mores perpetrated by non-Japanese, but, to my mind, what it did was exposed a lot of the typical prejudices Japanese people have. e.g., Koreans steal. Caucasians are disrespectful. most non-Japanese smell bad. etc., ad nauseam.

No comments: