We are all just conforming... It's all subjective of course, but most of what we decide we want to do to our cars we pick up from something we saw somewhere else.
Rice to me never had anything to do with Japan, but was just a car that was so tastelessly, and unnecessarily modified that it was not only an eyesore, but impractical as well.
And the definition of what we think is "JDM" is changing too. It used to be someone that modified their car with actual Japanese Domestic Market parts, even if they were just novetly items like side mirrors, or turn signals. But now it's come to describe a certain look, be it the slammed, insane negative camber VIP thing, or whatever you want to call it.
To me the JDM thing was never about trying to get tons of attention like people do with riced out cars, it was just about doing little things to your car to make it different in a more subtle manner. You were taking something that was designed for, and intended to be on the car originally, and putting it on a car in a place where the look was unfamiliar. It was a way of tinkering with your car that usually only the real connoisseurs would pick up on.
JDM is sort of like the Anti-Bling movement if you think about it. And rice is just a subcategory of the bling fad, usual applied to beloved econobox cars. Look at shit like Pimp My Ride. Most of us would agree that, that show appeals to the bling crowd but if we saw that shit it person we'd probably call it rice.
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Originally Posted by DrivenMind
