Very interesting Man
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TaraDeS — 8 months ago(July 23, 2025 02:28 PM)
Great artist, fusion of several cultures and even humorous.
No, I don't want to get into his panties. He's happily married with children.
What he said, reminds to Marcel Proust's Madeleines and yet is again his own style:
I think it was probably in college that I realized that there was a difference between Japanese and Japanese-American. That's important to realize. It's not the same thing and then eventually with Linkin Park, I toured in Japan. I've been there now I think four times. I remember the first time I went, how familiar it seemed, just getting out of the plane, it smelled like my aunt's house, in the airport, it smelled like Japan. I don't know if anybody else even noticed it but I walked out of the plane and thought this is definitely familiar to me, didn't even see anything yet. And then going to Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, you just recognize things about the way people act, the small things that people do such as how you'll grab a piece of paper. There are things that are more obvious like taking somebody's business card with two hands. You don't do that in the States. When I saw somebody do that I went,
"Oh yeah, my uncle always does that,"
you know. There are little things that culturally come from Japan but they also exist in Japanese American culture and it made me feel like the connection was there and I kind of hadn't realized how much of it was there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Shinoda
Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong try Japanese
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US-American Food