Living in London I am surrounded by many cultures bringing their cuisines to the capital and sharing them with others. Being British and having a Jamaican background, there is a variety of food I can recommend. Also being a lover of Japanese and Korean food, I can offer a few suggestions to try. I want to present three dishes from each culture: Meat, Seafood and Vegetarian.
Warning: Use of offensive stereotypes and racism intended from research studies and personal view.
Living in a multi-cultural city like London, you would expect to see some interriacal relationships right? Actually I do! There’s…white women with Asian men, black women with white men, black men with white women…eh? No black women with Asian men?! What is this? Society today is developing and the number of interracial relationships should be increasing as they are worldwide. So why is that with the increase of teenagers up to people in their early 30’s have a growing attraction to Asian people especially because of J-Pop and K-Pop but get rejected? Let’s investigate why…
…in the USA, that is. Now I don’t live in America (instead I’m from London), but back in March, there was a quite buzz at the amount of several Asian Pop artists (three solo artists and one group) that I thought had a good 30% chance of breaking into America as an Asian artist, Sadly, it’s now October and it’s dropped to 5%. Why? I’ll tell you why…
I have to say that, for some reason people never seem to take well to asi ans in music. From what I’ve learnt over the years before and after listening to Asian music, Nationality is the issue. I hate to say it but it’s true. I don’t think Americans are very responsive to any sort of Asian artist/group. I mean, can you name any local Asian-American act that’s actually made it big? So the chances are probably slimmer than my predicted percentage.
I don’t live in America but I can tell you that if I ever saw BoA’s song, I wouldn’t give her a second glance, I would most possibly call her mixed-race which is…stupid. Yeah, and anyways living in London, some British people wouldn’t respond well too, especially how we don’t have enough asians over here too, the other day I showed my sister SHINee and she called them gay (You can imagine how pissed I was), she didn’t even let me explain that there are music differences in other cultures.
Here are some of the artists who, if they had planned their steps correctly, would have made a breakthrough into America.
