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:
>> >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.
>> >>
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>> >> 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
>
>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.
Ask them, theyre here. "You can stop saying that now. Thank you."
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Not Dave Smith.