Tuesday, 19 March 2024

Visiting Treasure Island

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Visiting Treasure Island

kokujin_big.gifI went to Las Vegas with my parents who were visiting me from Japan. At a gift shop in Treasure Island Hotel, there were a lot of products with pirate logos. My mother found a coffee mug that she liked. “Oh, isn’t this Niguro nice…,” she said. What? Did she just say “Negro”?

I was puzzled. “Did I say something wrong?” she whispered in my ear. What she meant was the design on the mug, “Dokuro,” a Japanese word for the “skull and crossbones.”

Her ignorance was rather innocent and scary....

“My dear silly mother”