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Took my wife to supper at Kyoto, a Japanese restaurant, tonight. It's casual dining, but it's a semi-trendy place in Rolla because it includes a sushi bar. My ears suddenly noticed that over the speaker system the management was playing KZNN-FM, the local country station. I guess the owners are Japanese rednecks. It wasn't on very loud but I listened closely and verified that it was country music and I heard "KZNN" on a station break.
So there I was, a good ole boy, just got off from work at the lumberyard and still in my jeans and work boots, sitting in a Japanese restaurant, eating sushi and listening to country music.
That might strike the newcomers and imports as odd and gauche, but I thought it was right nice. I felt cosmopolitan.
I knew a few Asian folks in California who were CRAZY about country music. One Korean guy I knew would karaoke the stuff like nobody's business. And come to find out later the guy even had a Harvard degree. You can't make that stuff up. I have yet to've encountered one out deer hunting though, or sitting on a porch in the Ozarks draining a can of Stag.
Took my wife to supper at Kyoto, a Japanese restaurant, tonight. It's casual dining, but it's a semi-trendy place in Rolla because it includes a sushi bar.
So there I was, sitting in a Japanese restaurant, eating sushi
The Liberal Ozarks Boy
LOL! Why would listening to country music be considered redneck??? Taylor Swift, Kelli Pickler, Rascal Flatts, etc. are all very main-stream, more considered country-pop if you may.
You know your a redneck if you've been married 3 times and still have the same in-laws.
Hahaha! You rascal! You edited me!
Yep, I have to admit I on occasion eat fish bait. My wife, a native Texan, (yes, I married an import) introduced me to it. It isn't bad if you put enough of that green hot stuff on it.
Hahaha! You rascal! You edited me!
Yep, I have to admit I on occasion eat fish bait. My wife, a native Texan, (yes, I married an import) introduced me to it. It isn't bad if you put enough of that green hot stuff on it.
My first cousin married a little (hillbilly) japanese Redneck girl from Arkansas. I love her dearly.
Here is a link that will explain. http://asms.k12.ar.us/armem/tsang/INDEX.HTM
Okie
Last edited by ShadowCaver; 12-09-2008 at 07:39 AM..
Reason: corrected link...
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Over 120,000 people, including children and elderly, were forced to leave their homes in California and parts of Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. Most did not have time to sell their possessions and properties at a fair price. Though some people moved to other states, the majority were forced to go to internment camps also knowns as relocation centers. They were only allowed to take a few belongings with them, and many families lost virtually everything they owned except what they could carry. [SIZE=+1] After they gathered, they were forced to ride buses, trucks, or trains that transported them to internment camps. Many Japanese children could not understand why they had to say goodbye to their friends because they had always thought that they were Americans. They could not understand the reason.[/SIZE]
All the Japanese Americans on the west coast were moved to ten internment camps located from California to Arkansas. Internees spent many years in camps. They were locked behind barbed wire fences, and armed guards patroled the camps. Entire families lived in cramped, one room quarters that were poorly constructed. As the picture shows, the living area in the internment camps were crowd and unclean (UCA Archives). There was not any hot water for bathing and washing clothes, and lice was a common problem inside internment camps.
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Japanese rednecks in the Ozarks?
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