I am not asian, but this is
A
thought:
One thing that was
particularly
interesting in this
node was the
fact that you say that you
prefer the
company of
American youth, and you
criticize your
fellow Asian youth for their
floppy attempts at
westernizing. The thing is, many of the
young (North)
Americans that I know are
sucking down
anime and
sushi faster than you can say
GAINAX!
I am willing to
bet that, as
objectively as
possible,
hip chyx walking down
Queen Street W. wearing some
Chinese printed
t-shirt, (that for all they know says: I AM
CHEAP AMERICAN
WHORE), look every bit as
ridiculous as your
Korean
boy bands. The
West is
craving Zen and
Kanji at the same time as the
East is going
crazy for
Rock and Roll and
McDonald's.
This
melting pot and
cultural levelling
effect is
inevitable considering the new
electric technology that
wraps the
earth, allowing
contact between people that is
independant of
borders and cultures. In
fact, it should be an
expected
result that the East is
Westernizing as
rapidly as the West is
Easternizing.
baby, that's just how it is...