Post by TheKorean on Nov 17, 2009 12:46:52 GMT -5
To those born and/or raised overseas: do you feel alienated from your native heritage?
I'm not going to pinpoint the Asians here as this place is centered around Asian entertainment, and from what I've seen from AF and Soompi, quite a few followers of the said culture are not Asian.
Bonus points if you can guess what the above album cover has to do with this.
I'm not going to pinpoint the Asians here as this place is centered around Asian entertainment, and from what I've seen from AF and Soompi, quite a few followers of the said culture are not Asian.
Bonus points if you can guess what the above album cover has to do with this.
OK, here goes:
1. I am a (relatively) young Asian.
2. Young Asians, for the most part, do not listen to classic Western rock music. Even if they do, they do so casually, and couldn't really tell one performer from another. They might know some really huge iconic performers such as Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, but someone such as Peter Frampton, though a big star in the UK, the U.S., and other Western countries, would probably be known to only a relative small number of Asians...and only those who were at least teenagers during the 1970s.
3. Even if above had *heard* of Peter Frampton, they would not know many details of his performing career. Many Caucasians of a certain age group would, including those younger than expected to be Frampton's fans (because Frampton is a part of their collective pop culture).
4. I'm not a huge fan of Peter Frampton, although I do like a few of his recordings. However, I do know enough about him to know that he had this HUGELY popular series of concerts during the mid/late 1970s, of which one memorable performance was captured on the FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE album. During the song "Do You Feel Like We Do," Frampton famously improvised the lyric, "Well, DO YA?!" which was not on the studio recording.
5. I knew of the above. Many Caucasians also do. Almost no Asians would.
Ergo, I feel alienated from my Asian heritage.
Follow all that?
1. I am a (relatively) young Asian.
2. Young Asians, for the most part, do not listen to classic Western rock music. Even if they do, they do so casually, and couldn't really tell one performer from another. They might know some really huge iconic performers such as Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, but someone such as Peter Frampton, though a big star in the UK, the U.S., and other Western countries, would probably be known to only a relative small number of Asians...and only those who were at least teenagers during the 1970s.
3. Even if above had *heard* of Peter Frampton, they would not know many details of his performing career. Many Caucasians of a certain age group would, including those younger than expected to be Frampton's fans (because Frampton is a part of their collective pop culture).
4. I'm not a huge fan of Peter Frampton, although I do like a few of his recordings. However, I do know enough about him to know that he had this HUGELY popular series of concerts during the mid/late 1970s, of which one memorable performance was captured on the FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE album. During the song "Do You Feel Like We Do," Frampton famously improvised the lyric, "Well, DO YA?!" which was not on the studio recording.
5. I knew of the above. Many Caucasians also do. Almost no Asians would.
Ergo, I feel alienated from my Asian heritage.
Follow all that?
