Japanese Culture Invades Kentucky

[2old2care]

Cute article about Kentucky teens immersed in Japanese Culture. For all their "knowledge" of Japanese Culture, it's amazing how little they actually know. Ah well, you go, girls.

[monika]

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"They just have fun," said Emily, a senior at Lafayette High School, of her Japanese pop idols. "Here you have to have an image. Here you have to be perfect. Here you have to have choreography," she says as she does a sneering rendition of NSync's Bye, Bye, Bye, punctuated with arm movements.

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[ayumu]

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Not everyone, however, is a fan. Emily's dad refers to her J-rock idols as "Japanese transvestites."

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The rest of the article...Articles about teen trends annoy me. When will I learn to not read them? [img]/images/graemlins/relief1.gif[/img]

[Johnny]

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Duit said the only thing that would kill the trend is, ironically, if it gets too popular.

"If the local Gap store ever starts selling Gothic Lolita outfits and the like, it is a sure sign it is dead," he said.



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[img]/images/graemlins/relief.gif[/img] There's the dreaded line right there. "If what I'm into gets popular, I quit".

This sounds like any "rebel" teen with any hobby that they think they're the only people on earth to like. In this case, it happens to be Japanese popular culture (or so it seems, more specifically "Gothic Lolita")

[vanfanel]

Oh well, it serves Kentucky right for invading Japan with all those KFC restaurants [img]/images/graemlins/happy.gif[/img]

[jupiterstar]

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"People ask me a lot if I am going square dancing," Simone said. She is clearly not amused.

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The first thought that would go through my mind if I saw kids dressed like that is "you're too young to be a bum," but that's probably because I live in LA and not in the South. [img]/images/graemlins/happy.gif[/img]

[BigPants]

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"They are better than the crap that we have here like SpongeBob," Emily said. "You actually want to see the whole show."

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Oh my God, they must be blind!

Anyway, it was definitely an interesting read.

[Dustfire]

That's.......an interesting article [img]/images/graemlins/sweat000.gif[/img]

I like how sushi's apparently a gateway drug now [img]/images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif[/img]

Oh, and "a dozen Japanese graphic novels" is very impressive [/Saito]

Well, I guess if anyone needed proof that Gothic Lolitas were popular.....?

[Yoda47]

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Duit said the only thing that would kill the trend is, ironically, if it gets too popular.

"If the local Gap store ever starts selling Gothic Lolita outfits and the like, it is a sure sign it is dead," he said.

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Let me get this straight... It's only popular if it's not popular?

This reminds me yet again why I would never choose to be a teenager again if offered the opportunity....