(11-15-2012, 08:30 AM)Asian Dude Wrote: Undone it is. I find Miguel's comment about Haley's music being exposed to a 'new demographic' racist (see: page 4). I'm surprised that no one called it out.
Asian Dude...I didn't call Miguel out on this because I, too, have been exposed to a 'new demographic'' since moving into the area I reside in. It is predominantly Indian/Pakistani, and what I hear, outside my window, on weekends, is their homeland music. I don't hear Aerosmith, Taylor Swift, Sean Kingston, Drake, Katy Perry, Bob Marley or Justin Beiber, etc. booming from car speakers of the young people around here. And when my ''adopted'' Jamaican son (my son's best friend of many years) comes by, he's listening to reggae mostly. I'm definitely not racist in any sense of the word, and I'm definitely hearing the music of other cultures all of the time. And the two biggest fireworks days/holidays of the year, where I live, are Dawali and Ramadan. And I don't live in either India or Pakistan. The day I hear a recognizable song blasting away is the day I fall off of the roof of my house.

Yet, I love where I live. But I would also love to NOT be the only one playing Haley (mostly) from my car speakers too! I'm trying to train my neighborhood, you see. I'd like to expose them to a new type of music just as they have done to me.