Rice and beef
I'll agree with PKRWUD (and I've stated this before on another thread) that it really is all in your perspective.
Muscle car people gravitate to American V-8 cars with a minimum of decals and crap. We hang around with people who think like us and have cars like us. We think rice is lame, at best.
Ricers do the same. They hang with people just like them in every way. They think their foreign cars are the epitome of 'kewl' and believe we're the weirdos, same as we think of them.
Sort of a form of tribalism in it's own way. The kind of thing that often ends up in a war when nations do it.
We however, fight it out on the internet, the street, the track and sometimes, one on one with fists - and worse.
It's weird the way a choice of a car and the way we choose to modify those cars could cause so much bad feeling between otherwise similar people, but here we are.
It's ultimately foolish to invest too much energy or emotion in this dispute as it has no resolution and no real meaning beyond the fact that more people are into cars than ever before, which is good, but unfortunately, too many believe the appearance of speed and 'muscle' equates with actually having it under the hood.
This argument appears as if it's going to continue for a long time and I'm actually getting past being annoyed by Ricemobiles anymore, I've seen so many. I don't associate with one person who owns such a car so I have little interest in the whole silly fad, except as an observer of the phenomenon.
Still, for many, in ten years or so we'll look back and wonder what the fuss was all about.
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