On Friday, June 4, 2021 at 2:16:10 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> 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?
>
> --
> Not Dave Smith

BTS is #1 on the Billboard top 100 charts at the moment. That don't mean much to you but it's kind of a big deal. This group is bigger than Jesus. That don't mean I idolize BTS or the Koreans. My wife probably does. She says that she wishes her Korean mom could have lived to see this.