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A fancy Japanese way to say ‘foreigner’ that sounds like it was made up by a teacher who didn’t want to curse in class. It’s like saying ‘outsider’ but with more dignity and less attitude.
My teacher called me gaikokujin because I didn’t know how to eat sushi properly.
The guy at the ramen bar said I was a gaikokujin for not knowing the difference between miso and soy sauce.
My cousin got called gaikokujin for not knowing what a kimono was.