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racial scents |
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| A friend of mine works at an expensive business hotel in Tokyo and part of her job is to go into rooms after they check out to make sure nothing is missing. She swears she can guess the nationality of the person who just checked out solely by smell. Her examples; Koreans-KimChee, French-cologne/perfume, Germans-body odor, Americans-soap or ketchup. But at any rate I think its pretty clear that its due to dietary intake and similarities in cleansing products and not some intrinsic genetic racial smell. I was also told when I was in Japan that a racial slur for white Americans translates as 'stinking of butter'. |
| Posted: | 2/23/2004 |
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George ,
New Haven, CT, United States
, 29
, Male
, White/Caucasian
, graduate student
, Over 4 Years of College
, Middle class
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