My reference was limited to Japanese people exclusively - who, as you are no doubt aware, don't generally consider themselves "Asian" anyway.

Internment? Really? From Harajuku girls? Because they're... Japanese?

Not the implication, and not even remotely what you were referencing in your original post.

This strikes me as a macro version of the "It's all about me" response that white individuals routinely get criticized for in threads like these (including this thread).

"Normalized and OKed" by the state? There was a federal prosecution for civil-rights violations - the elder of the two (both unemployed auto-workers, as you no doubt know) got 25 years at the initial trial.

Ah, I see. It's a catch-all for whatever pejorative/bugbear you have in mind.

My question was about modern Japanese culture, and the politics of appropriating Harajuku imagery given Dodai's "dominant culture" ruling.

A world where men can't give each other shit?

Nice hats - but I can't enjoy them til I finish looking for signs of cultural appropriation.

Yet you cite the Harajuku girls? In what sense was Japan not a dominant colonial power in Asia for centuries?

Wow. I'm not touching that one. (Except indirectly: I had a bet w/a female colleague that someone would raise this point. She said no way.)

A huge volume of the hip-hop economy is pretty much contingent on crossover appeal, no?

It's certainly true that some sociologists (and policy think tanks) like to work from demographic data to construct accessible narratives.

Thanks for the clarification. (Always nice to see an author engage comments constructively!)

The phrase "model minority" is assigned to Asians almost without exception, no?

I'm confused about the pairing here - what's the offsetting "pain of a fully formed person"? Is it a statistically elevated likelihood of being below the poverty line? Because that's just a terrible construction - can you imagine how that would focus-group test... even with pro-choice allies?

You do realize that the production team on "The View" is an even mix of men and women, and that the senior male producer, Bill Geddie, was chosen by Barbara Walters (who serves as co-head of production)?

Ah, that's a sensible approach: being glad for basic levels of performance is at least as important as celebrating the far reaches of performance. Harder to remember to do, sometimes.

Would a focus on physical capabilities rather than purely aesthetic ones really shift the meter all that much, though?

I confined my point to the point to the deposition, so the "any other..." construction is a canard here.