<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=257737.msg12898496#msg12898496">Quote from: Starcry on 11-01-2017, 10:22:23</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I had Saya refer to Biscuit as a "Gaikokujin" which is a more formal term for "foreign-country person." Gaijin isn't really a "bad term" it just means "outside person" but some do feel it has gotten bad rep for some reason. Both are neutral terms but gaikokujin is mostly heard in the media and by the government, while gaijin is just used as an everyday thing.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I'm reasonably confident that although it's linguistically neutral, when the term was invented it was considered negative.  (Not that surprising, and I once read some guy's semi-detailed history of the term, and from what I hear many Japanese don't know it either.)<br/><br/>Biscuit is an "Amerikajin."  Jacob wouldn't actually<em>correct</em>Saya on that, though (that would be far ruder than the word).