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