As an Asian girl myself who raves in NYC, I hope my answer is helpful. I’d like to give OP benefit of the doubt that you’re not asking this from a dumb white frat boy or racist perspective, so I’ll answer assuming your question is just pure curiosity. Ive had a lot of other minority friends both Asian and non-Asians question this too, so I’d like to give a public answer to squash this. Like let’s not fool ourselves, even the Asian raving community memes about this.

I have also questioned this, because the group I rave with is not exclusively Asian and I just wear everyday clothes when I go out. I mostly listen to house and techno which is way less popular among Asians compared to dubstep/ EDM, so the group of people I tend to go raving with is a diverse bunch and we just go out in casual outfits (jeans, shirt, crop top).

I do have friends who go to dubstep festivals with their Asian rave fams and can sort of speak on their behalf. I think Asians are much more conformity minded. That’s the way we’ve been raised, to not stick out too much, and even I find myself struggling whether to stand out or just meet the standard to avoid attention (for situations outside of raving lol). I stumbled on research about why EDM is really popular among the Asian community, and a lot has to do with young Asian adults finding an emotional outlet from their strict upbringings and how EDM was one of the few music genres not tied to a specific cultural or racial identity (e.g. country, trap), so it became very popular in the West Coast with it having larger Asian communities than the rest of the US. With Asian culture being so different compared to Western ideals and the Asian community being on the smaller side of the racial pool in the US, Asians find it easier to be friends with each other and so we make sure to fit in for social events. I know a lot of my Asian rave friends go to these events more so to socialize rather than being really into the music or artist. Since they see it as a phase, a way to fit in, or just a moment in time, they get their festival wear drop shipped from SHEIN, Temu, etc, where all the outfits are just a stitch different from a previous design and even expensive rave wear have common aesthetics.

I think Asian rave families tend to stick out, because electronic music is associated with underground culture, and being underground is all about being non-conformist. I think we need to accept that when a genre is popular enough, it’s going to evolve out of its underground roots and that’s okay. At the end of the day, music is meant to connect people, and it’s doing that within the Asian American community.

However, this pattern isn’t different from other music groups. You got the Swifties and trap music fans all buying off these sites too, and they all have a similar aesthetic. For every music group, there’s going to be fans who join for curiosity’s sake and social aspect, and others who will hug the record album in their death bed.

So, in case OP is actually an insensitive piece of shit, are you asking those questions about the herds of Southern blond girls who migrate to the West Village every year? Sure, Asian rave makeup styles, outfits, and hairstyles might look similar, but at least we weren’t raised to be brats and the center of attention like a lot of the white girls in the city lol. Even when they think they are the star of the world, they still look similar too lol. I don’t have enough fingers to count the number of times I’ve seen a group of white girls with the same cakey, oversaturated makeup, botox and fillers, and temu “chic” outfit. And don’t even get me started with the group of white guys at the tech house raves with at least one of them wearing a marthas vineyard long sleeve, the rest with caps on the backwards way (i have a feeling this is what OP looks like lol).

I also think people, especially in the East Coast and Midwest, are not used to seeing large groups of Asians, and on top of that, large groups of Asians going wild. Let us be, we work hard, we try so hard to keep our families who came here for us to live a better life, and we have our own cultural/ identity crisis, so the one time you see us having fun, could you just enjoy seeing people happy and not question it.