On Sat, 05 Jun 2021 11:53:07 +1000, Dave Smith >
wrote:

>On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 18:02:23 -0700 (PDT), 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:
>>> >
>>> > 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
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>>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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>I've seen a documentary about the Korean pop scene. It's extremely
>nasty. The young artists are complete slaves to the record companies.
>I don't think stuff like this happens in the western music industry.
>At least not THIS bad. That's irrelevant to girlies who like to jump
>around to that music, of course.
Ask them, theyre here. "You can stop saying that now. Thank you."
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Not Dave Smith.