| | Well, I'm back again. Read through all of the comments, I think 1/3 were negative, 1/3 positive, and the other 1/3 were probably random from people I know or strangers I propped. Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. Anyway, "here's some more pics!" (á la Dave Chappelle)
(lunch? haha, sorry)
(the "Y" does not distinguish happy gook vs sad gook)
(I love those gook faces.)
(If you are one of the people in this pictures, I apologize, but I'm sure you think I'm pretty funny looking too. Hopefully you can take it as a compliment--you guys are hilarious, really.)
So what I'd like to talk about today is what the heck C-pop is. The only songs I've heard from this "genre" is Jay Chou, who is alright but in my opinion not as talented nor as entertaining as most korean singers/rappers. Here's some pictures of chinese singers, who I do not know at all. Maybe you guys do. Wait, maybe all 3 are the same person...anyway:
(see, chinks can be okay looking too...)
I also think this "azn" style/music craze is a reflection of how much image is stressed, especially in asia where people don't really care about looking superficial--they just do what they want. So, some examples of this new trend would be the amazing amounts of makeup that girls (and sometimes guys) put on--any noticeable faults = bad. And there was even a site I saw with pictures that claimed most of the major korean female stars had plastic surgery. In fact, you look at some of their faces and there's no doubt there's some plastic in there:
As a final question thing (hopefully this isn't to get comments, but to get you readers out there involved and have me learn something from you):
Do you like C-pop, K-pop, both, or neither? And if so, what are your favorite artists?
Something to think about:
"It is customary to blame secular science
and anti-religous philosophy for the eclipse
of religion in modern society.
It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats.
Religion declined not because it was refuted,
but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid.
When faith is completely replaced by creed,
worship by discipline, love by habit;
when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past;
when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain;
when religion speaks only in the name of authority
rather than with the voice of compassion -
its message becomes meaningless."
"Is our religious attitude one of conviction or mere assertion?
Is the existence of God a probability to us or a certainty?
Is God a mere word to us, a name, a possiblity, a hypothesis...
or is He as living presence?
Is the claim of the prophets a figure of speech to us
or a compelling belief?
Religious thinking, believing, feeling
are among the most deceptive activities of the human spirit.
We often assume it is God we believe in,
but in reality it may be a symbol of personal interests that we dwell upon.
We may assume that we feel drawn to God,
but in reality it may be a power within the world
that is the object of our adoration.
We may assume it is God we care for,
but it may be our own ego we are concerned with..."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel (from http://www.xanga.com/evans_lewis/427051905/item.html) --Edit: hmm...
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