Re: Asian-ness (was Re: "Whiteness" Re: Obseneties)

In a message dated 2000:09:02 8:48:38 PM, Barry_Garcia@MONTEREY.EDU  quotes
me & writes:

>>theAsian teenage boys & young men who are heavily into "tricking >>out"
their small-sized sports cars with all sortsa silly gizmos, >>audiospeakers,
stickers & tailfins).
>
>Guys who do this are trying to fit into the "white mainstream"? I've >never
seen any white guys at my high school do such things to their >cars. This is
an almost exclusively Asian practice here.

    Where did the Asians get it from? Hmmm? Hmmm? Of course, they made it
into their own style much different from the mainstream hot-rodders & the
Chicano "low-riders."

    I talked to my father about this. He just said it's a symptom of their
whole-hearted embrace of Western _bok qwai_ materialistic values.
"They worship the Western religion of the Machine. They are not critical
enough to see what is of real value. A car is just a machine. Machines always
break down eventually... as do so-call 'Civilizations.' Look at what is
happening to England. Bloody shame it's turning into a Third World nation.
And you know that the Industrial Revolution started there, right?"

    enuff said...

    czHANg