On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 17:06:04 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
wrote:

>On Friday, June 4, 2021 at 1:33:52 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in how you see this. If we weren't interested in what
>> other people think, we wouldn't be in a newsgroup. My guess is that
>> you only call the people that you idolise 'Asians', so that's
>> Japanese, Chinese and Koreans.
>>
>> --
>> Not Dave Smith
>
> As I said I use the standard American usage. It's irrelevant who I
> idolize, the only thing that matters is how Americans use the word
> "Asian." If you're saying that Americans idolize Japanese, Chinese,
> and Koreans, you're pretty much out of touch with the United States.

I didn't say that at all.

> OTOH, I guess you could say that American youth idolize Koreans. It's
> pretty much that way around the world.

Because of that extremely nasty K-pop scene?

Is a Thai an Asian in your vernacular?

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Not Dave Smith