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Okay... I'm probably going to sound ignorant, but don't Americans have karaoke too?
The only karaoke I've ever heard of in my area is in bars, not the "karaoke boxes" like I've seen in manga & dorama. I live in a small town in a mostly rural state, though. It took me quite a while to figure out what the heck the "karaoke boxes" were, because I had the mental image that "karaoke = getting up & singing in a bar".
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Btw... A question for the more.. white? people of the forums. This coming from a.. fobby Asian person. Do you use a lot of different cleansing stuff? Because Asians use like... facial masks, eye masks, nose masks, pimple masks, cleansers, toners, and the list goes on... And everyone probably has heard of the double eye-lid tape and glue... So, do "white" (I guess I should say non-Asian) people use that too?
I personally never have used a lot of different facial cleansing stuff (cleanser, facial scrub, lotion, toner, and an occasional mask *at most*, and usually not that much), and none of my friends in high school/college did either, but I'm old, so maybe everyone does now. The only thing I've ever heard of non-Asians gluing to their eyelids are fake eyelashes, and that's usually just for stage makeup or Halloween or something like that. (And yes, fake eyelashes DO feel extremely weird.)
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