What is your ethnicity?

[Jonah K]

Re: What is your ethnicity?

Why would a Japanese guy change his name to "Hoffman"?

When the name "Hoffman" came up in a Japanese thread on a Hawai'i-themed board, I was a little suspicious. A few years ago back, there was a Japanese drama by NHK called "Sakura" about a Hawai'i-born Nikkei that became an English teacher in Japan. While I found it a little strange that the main character (Elizabeth "Sakura" Matsushita, played by Japanese actress Takano Shiho) and her family spoke perfect Japanese and virtually no Pidgin, Sakura's haole boyfriend just happened to be named "Robert Hoffman." Perhaps, he was so impressed by the "Robert Hoffman" character in "Sakura" that he decided to change his surname to "Hoffman."

Here's a link to a detailed analysis of "Sakura" and how Nikkei are portrayed in Japanese dramas....
http://www.jamco.or.jp/2004_symposium/en/yano/

[1stwahine]

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This thread is getting to be something like a Yobo Soap Opera.

So much twist and turns!

Auntie Lynn

[admin]

Re: What is your ethnicity?

Please keep all musings about what exactly Shaun, softbaby, and whoever else is up to in the original "Learning Japanese" thread, and keep this topic to sharing your ethnic ties.

[808shooter]

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100% angry japanese monster

[Whitepoint3rchum]

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Part German, Swedish, and Irish. Perhaps a sliver of German Jew, however that isn't concrete and would probably require a test of my mtDNA.

[Whitepoint3rchum]

Re: What is your ethnicity?

100% angry japanese monster

Hey is that a CAR-15? Doesn't look like an M4...

[craigwatanabe]

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100% angry japanese monster

Man I hope your kids take on your Wife's side for looks cuz das one ugly nipponese

[Pua'i Mana'o]

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yeah, but look how buff da body is! Throw a bag over and its alllll good.

[craigwatanabe]

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yeah, but look how buff da body is! Throw a bag over and its alllll good.

One BIG bag

[1stwahine]

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I wen go doctor. No make laugh....plezzzzz. My arm hurts. It's not suppose to hurt.

Big Bag.

Bhahahahahahahaha.

Auntie Lynn

[Pomai]

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808shooter, do you have the rest of the rubber Godzilla suit? the body, legs, tail, etc.? That would be cool. Hot to wear, but cool lookin'.

If I ever got into acting, that's what I'd like to do. Be the stunt man in the godzilla or ultraman suit, knocking down miniature scale model cities.

[1stwahine]

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And I want to play MOTHRA!

http://tinyurl.com/abfoy/

Auntie Lynn

[craigwatanabe]

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And I want to play MOTHRA!

http://tinyurl.com/abfoy/

Auntie Lynn

That's Auntie Mothra

[808shooter]

Re: What is your ethnicity?

Hey is that a CAR-15? Doesn't look like an M4...

Colt ar15 preban a2.

Man I hope your kids take on your Wife's side for looks cuz das one ugly nipponese

haha you one funny guy. one looks like me, one looks like wifey. lucky foa baby #2 :-D

yeah, but look how buff da body is! Throw a bag over and its alllll good.

haha you funny too. too bad i get hauna breath.

808shooter, do you have the rest of the rubber Godzilla suit? the body, legs, tail, etc.? That would be cool. Hot to wear, but cool lookin'.

If I ever got into acting, that's what I'd like to do. Be the stunt man in the godzilla or ultraman suit, knocking down miniature scale model cities.

Woo woo! Feeling pretty good about myself right now. You a webmaster/graphic artist? That was photoshopped. Not my best work but at first fast glance, good enough to pass I guess... huh?

[Pomai]

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Woo woo! Feeling pretty good about myself right now. You a webmaster/graphic artist? That was photoshopped. Not my best work but at first fast glance, good enough to pass I guess... huh?

and highly unobservant. I shoulda' noticed the glow effect on the paths' edges around the mask. So much for you being Godzilla (angry Japanese) by ethnicity. Can you at least "aaaaaaahhhhhhhgggaaaa-ummmmmm" to sound like him?

Regardless, Kikaida would kick Godzilla's @ss any day (speaking like a geek). lol