I first noticed the buns on young Asian men at the gyms in SoCal several years ago. They were the Judo, Karate, MMA and the like kind of guys. It seemed to me they were trying to resemble Samurai warriors or something. More recently I see them on young physically assertive type anglo and hispanic men.
As for pony tails, they have been popular in Santa Fe, NM for a very long time, especially among the artsy-f@rtsy types. They never really went out of style there after they first appeared in the mid 1960's among hippies and peace/protester types all over the country. Frankly they look ridiculous on most of the anglo men there who are middle aged and older, balding to almost bald and are fat enough to look about 8 months pregnant. The American Indian men of all ages there are almost always blessed with beautiful hair so they look great (and normal) wearing pony tails. Of course I have been around them since I was a child in the 1940's so their pony tails suit their appearance somehow IMHO.
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