[quote name='Joel' post='61484' date='Mar 4 2009, 09:16 AM']Maybe this is the beginning of an "asian invasion." <img src='
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If only... but I can't imagine it. Especially if you're associating it, in any form, with the "Latin Invasion" of the late 1990's. That was a completely different set of rules altogether. Those artists were all singing in English, and doing so quite fluently. (Well aside from Shakira, I suppose, haha). And even in the case of their Spanish appeal, keep in mind that Spanish is the second-biggest language in America (surpassing usage by all of the other non-English languages
combined). And then it was playing to the "exotic appeal" thing, and in American pop culture it's easier to sell Latin celebs than it is Asian ones. Asian celebrities, whether American-born or from overseas, have very rarely seen big success in American pop culture. It's unfortunate, and very unfair, but it also doesn't seem to be changing very quickly. Even nowadays, it was seen as earth-shaking when a couple of Korean stars from the show Lost were actually getting mainstream exposure. And in many of their interviews, they spoke directly to this same subject. How in the American entertainment business, Asian folks are one of the groups that still never get their fair shake. And with so many Asian folks living in America, it doesn't seem fair that Hollywood refuses to represent such a huge faction of its consumer base.
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