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...newest craze at pre-teen jewelry retailers and American movie stars take pilgrimages to India to try out the latest mehndi designs and yoga moves. In short, Indian culture has become trendy, and part of my quest to discover an Indian-American identity seeks to take ownership of the fad. In the past few years, as well, the cinematic endeavors of South Asians in the U.S. have fed our cravings for such fusion fare. In the India Post, a newspaper that caters to the Indian diaspora, film director Krishna DK said the recent upsurgence of “crossover films?...
...course they don’t, because those players—along with several others—comprise the dark underbelly of the “High School-to-NBA” fad that has been gaining momentum over the past ten years...
...Cartman turn metrosexual—trading their hooded jackets for tight T-shirts and gelled hair. At first their mothers and the women in general take a liking to this change in appearance and attitude. However, as things progress, they come to notice the dark underside of this fad. The men of South Park have become so concerned with making it to the next shoe sale and keeping up their fabulous look that they stop paying attention to the women and lose sight of their own masculinity. The metrosexualization of the show’s male population provides an opening...
...thing that TV on the Radio have going for them is that they really do sound like nothing out there at the moment. They may borrow beats and keyboard accents from the retro-wave fad that’s sweeping the current New York scene, but they add to them in such interesting and entertaining ways that it’s hard to make comparisons between TV and any of the old-time greats...
...Sherman said that he thinks the popularity of social networking websites at Harvard and other schools is not simply a fad...