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the article in the OP was way too confusing to understand
some teenagers are going blackface/drag queen or something?
I dunno
Now British teens of both sexes are trying to look the same kind of ugly.
The end is nigh.
Oh my god. That is wonderful.
honestly I only ever saw real yamanba/ganguro gaggles of fuckheads like a handful of times in all of the ridiculous amount of time I spent in Shibuya
this is just people being retarded about Japanese culture. We're talking 5-10 years too late. Stupid fuckin' honkeys.
White people are imitating the japanese rejecting japanese imitating white cultural standards through a medium that in itself was used by whites to imitate black people. The sheer level of convoluted racial and ethnic confusion is bewildering.
it has little to do with whites imitating blacks.
the idea behind what they do NOWADAYS has to do with imitating tanned blondes one might stereotypically find in southern California.
it's much more superficial than imitating "white cultural standards"
it's really all about being tan/blonde/not-yer-normal-japanese chick/dude
The only popular things to do nowadays are be considered gyaru or gyaru-o (the male equiv)
I'll agree with this insofar as we're only talking about what happens with these Brits.
I'll try to find the LJ of the Italian girl who was trying to be ganguro. it was disturbing.
white jazz singers would put on blackface because audiences were used to singers being black
Al Jolson and shit
uh no
not even close
blackface started about 100 years before jazz
sam nailed what it's original intent was
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7-9E6uHAek
oh man
oh man
there's at least two other videos like that on youtube
When I got downstairs, there was a police officer looking very cross indeed.
This hasn't happened before, but I can't say I was surprised.
shit, I'm glad I'm already drunk
also they gave us such marvelous gems as this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMMCfPkQWM4
In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side
Does that make it a double-trap?
Yo Fiz, you're in the clear, that was a dude
and I fear for the future
Twatter - Last.FM
Tumblr blargh
Hahahaha what
But I just fucked some titties
This weekend was a bust