Rei Murasame wrote:I wonder what the breakdown of the other 40% is, though. Is there anything on that?
Just woke up, asked the wife about the word and she said she knew it but didn't understand why I was asking her.
I did the yakuza bit, the Yamaguchi-gumi bit......
She came out and said "I don't know if it is a nice thing to say, though...it is......uhm, racist."
I said, "Well, that is part of the question: it is not racist. It is not about ethnicity. I want to say I recall it being something about Koreans, but that is not the case at all. The 'racist word' part of it is the 'eta' connection."
She said "what?"
I said "A tah. Eh taw? E-T-A."
She took her head not understanding what I was talking about and turned around.
The other 40% gotta be butchers and shoemakers. That Yakuza connection would come afterwards. It certainly shows some disenfranchisement resulting in inferiority complexes which could increase the ranks of the Yakuza.
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