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Yeah, westerners never put funny things in their mouths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grill_%28jewelry%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grill_%28jewelry%29
by machrider 16y ago
Yeah, westerners never put funny things in their mouths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grill_%28jewelry%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grill_%28jewelry%29
- hugh3 16y agoOh, there are idiotic trends in the west as well. But they have an entirely different flavour to them. Grills are an ostentatious display of wealth. Ostentatious displays of wealth are severely frowned upon in any culture (or subculture) where wealth is actually common. White people, or Japanese people, or even middle-class black people, would never wear something as tacky as a diamond-studded tooth grill... they'd rather display their wealth via something like a $20,000 watch that only folks with $20,000 watches know is a $20,000 watch. Now, LEDs aren't expensive, so they don't work as ostentatious displays of wealth. About the only thing they work as is an ostentatious display of your willingness to adopt trends in the full knowledge that they're completely stupid-looking. And that kind of thing may play well in Japan but it won't fly in the west where we're not quite so ironically detached.
- philwelch 16y agoNow, LEDs aren't expensive, so they don't work as ostentatious displays of wealth. About the only thing they work as is an ostentatious display of your willingness to adopt trends in the full knowledge that they're completely stupid-looking. And that kind of thing may play well in Japan but it won't fly in the west where we're not quite so ironically detached. Honestly, "willingness to adopt trends in the full knowledge that they're completely stupid-looking" and "ironically detached" sound like pretty good descriptions of Western hipsters. I don't know if that's what motivates these Japanese people or not, but if so, it's a concept that isn't unique to them.