In my opinion modifying your vehicle in such a way does make you a ricer, but your personality, the way you communicate with others and even the people you hang out with are determinant factors on how people like me judge people like you on how much of a ricer you are.
Recently, I have been browsing facebook for awhile going from profile to profile in search of ricers, I did stumble upon a few real automotive enthusiasts, which their names I wouldn't be mentioning, but their population was no match for the population of the local ricers that were in the social network. They were everywhere, with their fake profile names and their dull cars for profile pics. I am not going to elaborate in depth on this matter as I do not want to react to rants or threats by those of you who get offended easily over a blog post reviewing this counterculture.
Anyway, the drift scene here in Indonesia isn't so bad, unless you're having the Japanese drift scene as a comparison, there are some pretty decent drifters and machines out there. The events held here are quite interesting to start with as well, but once ricers start collaborating in the scene, I couldn't bother my ass to even take a glimpse at it, which is what's happening right now. High school boys with their subcompact front wheel driven cars toying around with their parent's money just to "upgrade" their cars (Where some, or maybe most of them don't even know what they're installing) for so called drifting and going to meets with their so-called enthusiast buddies, use your own money in building your own car, your parents didn't work their asses off just to fund your hobby while you flunked in school. Oh, and middle-aged know-alls who think they know everything about cars bragging around about their newly bought luxury of a car and pimping the crap out of it. When would these people come to their senses? I just don't get it. I'm not referring to any specific individuals whatsoever on this matter, it's just what I see through my eyes added with my logical opinion.
"But Ariq, it's our right to modify our cars the way we want, who are you to judge us?" Well it's my right as well to criticize you and your sorry cars. This is a free country, as much as you want to express yourselves on your cars, I’d like to express our point of view as well. Respect that! By the way that last part was from Add More Horsepowers! disclaimer since I couldn't be bothered to think up of another smart alec quotation.
Speaking of AMHP, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the name, it's an Indonesian anti-rice culture blog where they review snapshots of ricers lurking through the streets of Indonesia. Here's a link to their blog overview.
I think that's it for today, and once again;
"This is a free country, as much as you want to express yourselves with those thingamajigs on your cars, we’d like to express our point of view as well. Respect that!"(:
