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"The spectacle of young Japanese spending lavishly on "dread hair" and tanning salons is perhaps the most striking expression of hip-hop devotion in Japan, and for critics both in the United States and in Japan it symbolizes a misappropriation and misunderstanding of black music, culture, and style" (638) - Condry
Rhymester -> "appreciation" of culture
Likewise, people should accept the differences and appreciate it, rather than differentiate and group
=> connection
"The haphazard gathering of immigrants in Kensington had turned it into a place that even someone like me, haunted and conscious of race and identity at every turn, could slip and belnd into." (78) - Mengestu
Indigenization
-Japanese Hiphop
Societal Change
"It is imperative that we come to some agreement about who "we" are, and what our goals are for the nation, now that our community includes people of many races, ethnicities, languages, and religions." (3) -Mukherjee
Appadurai, Arjun. Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger. Durham: Duke UP, 006. Print.
Condry, I. "Yellow B-Boys, Black Culture, and Hip-Hop in Japan: Toward a Transnational Cultural Politics of Race." Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 15.3(2007): 637-71. Web
Megestu, Dinaw. "Home at Last." (n.d.): n. pag. Web
Mukherjee, Bharati. "Amercian Dreamer." (n.d.): n. pag. Web.
Societal change
- Rapid variation in demographic
Abrupt change of systems
- Vertebrate => Cellular
"There is less agreement about the emergent politics and culture of this hyperglobalized world." - Appadurai
Main Question: We?
Table of Contents
Nation - State System (Vertebrate)
=> we == same nationality
New systems (Cellular)
=> we == all different categories
Traditional way of defining "we" is not sufficient in a high-globalized world
The Relation