Hmmm. Half vietnamese here - being a french colony made crusty french baguettes part of the Vietnamese culture. Not to mention "expresso" with condensed milk. I couldn't say definitely, but I'd assume that the parts of society eating french bread were the more educated & higher classes, since those were the ones that were learning french, etc. So I wouldn't say all asians would have a problem with crusty or hard bread.

That being said... after dating a belgian guy for several years, I can definitely appreciate good bread, however I don't/can't see bread as a dietary staple. I find it constipating and just don't feel as good on it as opposed to a diet with rice as a dietary staple. I'm more than fine with brown rice or wild rice and will often mix it in with white rice (it's hard to beat a 25 lb bag of white rice for $12). I mostly figure that half my ancestors evolved eating rice as a dietary staple for however many generations, and that's just what's natural for me.

I do like some bread on occasion, and will usually just go to costco and get their big bag of ciabata for $5 or some of their other bread offerings, eat a bit and freeze the rest to use when I want bread.

As for organic vs. non-organic food... I basically am more interested in locally produced food as opposed to organic food. An organic bell pepper that has been trucked across the country to me to buy for $5.99 a lb seems silly vs. going to the local farmers market and buying a bell pepper that may or may not be organic but didn't have to be trucked across the country.

I also take the term organic with a grain of salt... given that the regulations on what can call itself organic are fairly loose. I don't avoid organic food, but I will usually only buy it if it's the same price or just moderately more than the non-organic alternative. I'm more likely to buy milk from cows that haven't been treated with bovine growth hormone for $3 than organic milk for $5 vs. non-organic bgh treated milk for $2.50

And I'm a bit skeptical that we're going to feed the entire world on organic farming... I definitely believe in smarter farming than what we're currently doing. I grow some herbs & some veggies in my yard