:JReadings, you wrote: "The problem that I (and others) have with RomaC's attitude..." please do not presume to speak for others about my "attitude." But since you have been goading me here is some attitude: You have been riding shotgun on this article for a long time now, repeatedly reverting editors who made changes to the article to reflect the contemporary usage of the word. You had also hidden "gaijin" behind "gaikokujin," and made the spurious assertion that it was a "common abbreviation" of that word, when you should know it is not. Further, dictionaries and academic sources are not the best places to look for better understanding of a colloquialism. And, non-Japanese sources are perfectly valid when dealing with the controversy around of "gaijin." It is not for Westerners but Japanese to decide if "Jap" is offensive/derogatory, not hetrosexuals but gays who decide if "fag" is offensive/derogatory, not whites but blacks who decide if "colored" is offensive/derogatory. Granted, "gaijin" is not so clear-cut, but we need not decide whether it is offensive/derogatory or not, we need only say in the article that some think it is offensive/exclusionary/derogatory/racist. That's all  this is not a competition where one side sees if they can find a larger number of sources than the other. cheers!