GM wrote:
> On Friday, June 4, 2021 at 8:02:26 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
>> 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.
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> Korean trash...
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Is it more of that K-pop shit? I thought that shit died out.